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Feds Identify Suspected "Second Leaker"
That's the headline from Michael Iskikoff at Yahoo! News reporting that the FBI has identified the suspected so-called "second leaker." The story begins: The FBI has identified an employee of a federal ... -
DNI Releases Update on PPD-28 Implementation
On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released an update on the implementation of Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28, regarding signals intelligence activities. -
Charging Snowden With...Murder? Really?
Offered without (or only a little) further comment: this piece from The Hill, and a rather eyebrow-raising quotation therein from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers regarding Edward Snowde... -
Sweeping Claims and Casual Legal Analysis in the Latest U.N. Mass Surveillance Report
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Susan Landau on NSA Efforts to Secure Private Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure
Susan Landau has a new paper – entitled Under the Radar: NSA's Efforts to Secure Private-Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure – up at the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. From the abstra... -
U.N. Special Rapporteur Report on Mass Digital Surveillance and Article 17 of the ICCPR
Here it is, via First Look. The latest from the U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Ben Emmerson QC, concludes a... -
CDT Event this Evening on "Databuse"
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Why Glenn Greenwald's Challenge is Asking the Wrong Question
Over at Vox an admiring article appears on a challenge that Glenn Greenwald is giving to people who think they have nothing to hide: The most common defense for the massive expansion of -
On the Latest <em>Intercept</em> Story
You may not have read much about the latest big scoop in The Intercept, released Friday evening under the bylines of Peter Maass and Laura Poitras and headlined "Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and ... -
New Yorker Profile of Laura Poitras
I have just read George Packer's profile of Laura Poitras in the New Yorker, which centers around her new, long-awaited film about Edward Snowden. The film, due for release October 24 and called Citizenf... -
Jane Mayer Interviews Edward Snowden
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Some Recent NSA Debates
Here's some video of some recent NSA debates. Here's one that took place a couple of weeks ago at Georgetown on "The NSA, Privacy & the Global Internet: Perspectives on EO 12333." Participants included ...
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