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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Remarks on Encryption
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered the following remarks about encryption on Tuesday at the U.S. Naval Academy. The following is his speech as prepared for delivery: Thank you, Professor ... -
The Real ‘Unmasking’ Scandal Could Be Yet to Come
Within the pantheon of Trump administration scandals, the manufactured uproar over “unmasking” came and went quicker than most. It was last spring that White House officials, working in tandem with House... -
Unintentional Noncompliance and the Need for Section 702 Reform
Congress has only three months to complete a task that it considers necessary but that is also controversial: reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Section 702 authorize... -
House Judiciary Committee Section 702 Reform Bill
The House Judiciary Committee has released a discussion draft of the USA Liberty Act, a bill to reform Title XII of the FISA Amendments Act. The document is included below. -
Cross-Border Data Access Primer
“Bad for public safety, bad for companies, and bad for privacy,” declared Paddy McGuinness, the United Kingdom’s deputy national security advisor about the current U.S.-U.K. cross-border data access syst... -
Great Power Competition and the AI Revolution: A Range of Risks to Military and Strategic Stability
Today’s rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) could disrupt and destabilize the existing military balance—and not necessarily for the reasons that have captured popular imagination. The potentia... -
Does Equifax Owe Victims a Duty of Care?
Last week, credit reporting outlet Equifax disclosed that they were subject to a massive hack of personally identifiable information that may have compromised the data of as many as 143 million Americans... -
Coats and Sessions Call for Reauthorization of FISA Title VII Without Sunset
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats sent a letter to the congressional leadership on Monday calling for a reauthorization of FISA Title VII, including Section 7... -
EU Judges US Surveillance Law
The Irish High Court is considering a potential landmark case on the legality of transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States. A large portion of E.U. data transfers operates u... -
Parallel Universes: 'Beyond Snowden' and the Two Sides of the Surveillance Debate
When Tim Edgar told his ACLU colleagues in early 2006 that he’d be leaving the organization to join the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, our reactions ranged from mute astonishment to out... -
"Beyond Snowden" and Transparency on Section 702
This piece is part of a series on Tim Edgar's new book, "Beyond Snowden." -
iOS 11 May Complicate Border Searches
Unlike most Silicon Valley companies, Apple’s business model is one of "Data Liability." Unlike Google or Facebook which use advertising to extract value from users’ personal information, Apple focuses o...
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