Dustin Volz of the National Journal brings us the news that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has "revived the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records" for an add...

What do hotel registries and national security internet surveillance have in common? On their face, not much. The former (as we learn from City of Los Angeles v. Patel) involves a routinized administra...

Boy, talk about making a mistake. On Monday I confidently predicted the pending decision in City of Los Angeles v. Patel, saying, among other things that "Most observers (including me) think that the Co...

I'm a little surprised by my colleague Ben's comments on the privacy community and its focus on NSA rather than China. I think he knows the answer to the question he's raising, and he's just doing a rhet...

On Wired I wrote about the anonymous and fact-free London Times story about the Russians and Chinese decrypting Snowden's archives. My verdict: these countries, and others, almost certainly have the enti...

I have been consumed for the past week with Lawfare’s relaunch, but I have not forgotten that I promised to address Charlie Savage’s response to my critique of his recent story on NSA cybers

A kerfuffle broke out here at Lawfare last week over the significance of the new tranche of Snowden-procured documents released on Thursday.

The OPM intrusion has grave implications for the personally identifiable information of the four million present and former employees whose data was compromised. As this post on Hacking as Offensive Cou...

Senator Whitehouse's thoughtful commentary on "Why Americans Hate Government Surveillance but Tolerate Corporate Data Aggregators" deserves consideration by everyone -- he asserts that corporate interest...