In my last post, I argued that surveillance reform is the only way to ensure continued data flows between the US and the European Union. In this post, I will begin to explore whether there is a practical...

Our buddy Jane Smith has a lot of European friends. As such, the collapse of the safe harbor agreement has hit her Facebook account hard.

In my last post, I said that the European Court of Justice decision in Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commission ignores some inconvenient truths. US frustrations with European double standards o...

There is a lot of bad blood between Silicon Valley companies and the intelligence community. It should not be surprising with what the NSA did to understand why Silicon Valley is pushing back so strongl...

A friendly suggestion for your new account: engage with your critics.

Is it just me or is this the dumbest NSA story in a long, long time? NBC News is breathlessly reporting a "top-secret report on a previous NSA operation against"—drumroll, please—Iran:

No one could miss the Washington Post story on the options the Obama administration is considering regarding cryptography. They are, in varying degrees, in favor of keeping the status quo ante.

As Ben noted last Friday, it seems clear to me that Apple (and the rest of industry) has won the encryption debate.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that:

When Chancellor Angela Merkel recently cited the “challenges” concerning the National Security Agency as an area that the German government has “tackled excellently” this term, many observers were surpri...

I personally believe the NSA's systems for bulk surveillance represent a direct attack on the Internet and everyone who uses it. The mere presence of these systems is a threat to democracy, only mitigat...