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We are told there is a privacy crisis. The Snowden revelation and other such things have given the sense that we are in a crisis. I think what we have is a privacy panic. What I would call the Snowden...
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There's a new international survey on Internet security and trust, of "23,376 Internet users in 24 countries," including "Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kon...
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A few weeks ago, Mieke Eoyang wrote and post on Lawfare entitled "A Modest Proposal: FAA Exclusivity for Collection Involving U.S.
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Today, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James R. Clapper declassified the fact that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to extend the Nation...
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The Intercept has published an article---based on the Snowden documents---about AURORAGOLD, an NSA surveillance operation against cell phone network operators and standards bodies worldwide. This is not ...
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has live-streaming video of this morning's oral argument, in a challenge to the NSA's call records program.
The live stream will get underway at ...
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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.
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The privacy- and oversight-relevant news comes to us via this Associated Press story.
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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 ...
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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.
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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...
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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...
