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What Happens if We #Sunset215?
A law the government cites as authority for the bulk collection of millions of Americans’ communications records---Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act---expires unless Congress extends it by Memorial Day week... -
DNI Report on Signals Intelligence Reform
Today's document details the implementation of reforms that the President announced a little more than a year ago. For background on the directive, Lisa Monaco's statement from the White House is here. -
Declassified FISA Court Orders Fill in History of NSA Warrantless Surveillance
Some key news from earlier in the week: The New York Times obtained two previously classified rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) from May and August 2007. Authored by Judge Rog... -
The Intercept's Invitation to Criminality---and to Intelligence Agencies
The Intercept posted an interesting document yesterday designed to help a certain class of would-be-criminals---leakers of classified information---but which will, I would imagine, interest a different g... -
PCLOB Releases Recommendation Assessment Report
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has released an assessment of the status of each of the Board's 22 recommendations regarding Section 215 and Section 702 programs. More information, inclu... -
Harvard Event with Bruce Schneier and Edward Snowden
On Friday, the former spoke by videolink with the latter, about (unsurprisingly enough) surveillance, privacy and data security. Youtube has a video of their discussion: -
The State of the Union on Counterterrorism: Does The Rhetoric Match the Policies?
On counterterrorism, the President's speech was a study in mismatches---as was apparent last night in at least two respects. First: The address began with an odd intermix of statements related, on one h... -
The French Response to Terror: Counterterrorism Detention and Prosecutions Across the Atlantic
In the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery, Western European security forces unleashed a dizzying storm of arrests and prosecutions and announced "exceptional" new... -
The NRC's Bulk Collection Report: a High-Level Overview
Last week, Wells noted the release of an important, 85-page report by the National Research Council. (Yesterday, Herb Lin added his thoughts about it.) Broadly, Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: T... -
What David Cameron Doesn't Get
Last week British Prime Minister David Cameron gave an extraordinary speech in which he urged the the banning of private communications, that is communications to which the government could not listen in... -
National Academies Report on Bulk Signals Intelligence
On January 15, 2015, the National Research Council released a report entitled Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options. -
New NSA Documents on Offensive Cyberoperations
Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others have another NSA aticle with an enormous Snowden document dump on Der Spiegel, giving details on a variety of offensive NSA cyberoperations to infiltrate and exp...
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