In what is surely a typographical error, the Washington Post has named NSA General Counsel Raj De as the man behind the Snowden disclosures: De’s last day was Friday, and he plans to start at Mayer Brown...

Last week the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of the UK Parliament published its much-anticipated report entitled "Privacy and Security: A Modern and Transparent L

The New York Times today has an op-ed by the founder of Wikipedia called Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users.

This week we learned about an attack called "FREAK"---"Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys"---that can break the

Everything old is new again.  Two years ago, I wrote about a bipartisan effort (in which I was and still am participating) to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.  That effort, sadly, went n...

Of course the US cares about privacy, just as much, if not more, than they do in the EU.  And the data are clear that in the EU, national security and law enforcement surveillance are often subject to le...

Bruce has just published Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, a book that will interest many Lawfare readers.  Data and Goliath is deeply informed and accessi...

It happened Friday. Here's the White House Statement: In January 2014, President Obama directed an end to the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it then existed, and called for the establishm...

Do you worry that the NSA, perhaps in a joint program with the U.S.

In a recent debate between NSA director Mike Rogers and Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, the topic of law-enforcement restricted access to encrypted communications once again came up...