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New Draft Article, "A Rule of Lenity for National Security Surveillance Law"
I recently posted a new draft article on FISA reform, A Rule of Lenity for National Security Surveillance Law, forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Here's the abstract: This essay argues that Congr... -
More Declassified Documents from DNI
IC on the Record released this important announcement and new trove of declassified documents: DNI Announces the Release of Additional Documents Related to Collection Activities Authorized by President G... -
Munk Debate on State Surveillance
The resolution at this Munk Debate in Toronto is "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms." Supporting the motion are former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden and Harv... -
Der Spiegel on U.S.-German Relations
A very interesting article in Der Spiegel about U.S.-German relations, the NSA investigation, and Ukraine in light of Angela Merkel's recent trip to Washington. The bottom line is that the Ukraine crisis... -
Is the NSA Story Coming to an End?
Stewart Baker began this week's Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast---which always opens with the week's NSA news---by noting that there was virtually no NSA news this week. That which did exist, moreover, was not ... -
The President's Big Data Report -- Some Hat; Some Cattle
The Administration has released its long-awaited, review of Big Data -- a report from the Executive Office of the President on the phenomenon of large-scale data collection and analysis. The review was ... -
Thoughts on White House Statement on Cyber Vulnerabilities
As Ritika noted, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel today announced some aspects of the government’s policy on disclosing cyber vulnerabilities. -
Your Friday Afternoon FISC 215 Document Dump
Now available: a six-strong batch of -
An Update on the Status of FISA Transparency Reporting
What follows is a quick recap on the status of FISA transparency reporting (most of this was news in late January but is summarized here with some useful links) along with a couple of observations on wha... -
Heartbleed as Metaphor
I begin with a paragraph from Wikipedia: Self-organized criticality is one of a number of important discoveries made in statistical physics and related fields over the latter half of the 20th century, di... -
Readings: NSA Report on the 702 Program
Below is the text of a Report/public comment on the 702 program submitted by the NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Office to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), dated April 16, 2014. I... -
The Reality of Russian Surveillance
James Lewis of CSIS has an excellent post on the reality of the Russian surveillance system, a reality that is quite different from the impression created by Vladimir Putin during his recent televised ex...
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