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Senator Feinstein Intends to Introduce Drone Safety Legislation
Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) has announced that she plans to introduce new legislation aimed to "significantly strengthen drone safety laws to protect U.S. airline passengers and U.S. -
White House Proposes Funds for Police Body Cameras
The privacy- and oversight-relevant news comes to us via this Associated Press story. -
Memo to NSA: Stop Saying You Apply the FIPPs
The intelligence community has no set of general principles for judging the privacy impact of their programs. Some privacy scholars believe that the Fair Information Protection Principles (FIPPs) serve ... -
A Quick Summary of Oral Argument in <em>In Re Directives</em>
Earlier this Fall I wrote about how certain materials from the In Re Directives litigation before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (“FISCR” or “Court”) had been declassified. -
Live Q&A Today with NSA's Civil Liberties and Privacy Director
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is hosting an "online, interactive" Q&A today with Rebecca Richards, the NSA's point person for civil liberties and privacy. Users can submit their que... -
A Modest Proposal: FAA Exclusivity for Collection Involving U.S. Technology Companies
I’ve been wrestling with an idea on electronic surveillance reform, and when I recently consulted with Benjamin Wittes about it, he encouraged me to post here and seek the feedback of Lawfare’s readershi... -
ODNI Releases Transcript from 2008 Protect America Act Litigation
On Monday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a declassified oral argument transcript from critically important 2008 proceedings before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Co... -
The Senate Kills Surveillance Reform and Glenn Greenwald Shrugs
The Senate yesterday buried---at least for now---surveillance reform, when Republican senators refused to allow the current draft of the measure to proceed to a vote. Glenn Greenwald has an interesting r... -
Pew Study Says Exactly What You'd Expect on Privacy
The Pew Research Internet Project has released a new public opinion study that shows exactly what you would expect the public believes about privacy, surveillance, and related matters. The study seems to... -
PCLOB Hearing on "Defining Privacy"
It's ongoing now. Details are available here. and live streaming video is available over at C-SPAN. -
Privacy as a Utilitarian Value
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is is an advisory body to assist the President and other senior Executive branch officials in ensuring that concerns with respect to privacy and civil libe... -
Appellees File Supplemental Brief in Klayman v. Obama
A few days after oral argument before a three-judge panel of the D.C.
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