NSA Leaks: Collateral Damage?
Much of the focus over the last few days has been on President Obama’s announced reforms to some of the NSA’s oversight mechanisms and on reactions to those announcements. But a report by David Sanger...
View ArticleNSA Surveillance Activities Cited as Reason for Groklaw Shut Down
Recent disclosures about National Security Agency activities appear to have ongoing impacts. The ABA Journal reports that Pamela Johnson, the founder and operator of the Groklaw website has terminated...
View ArticleBruce Schneier on the Limitations of Intelligence
Noting reports that U.S. intelligence agencies may have had warning that Syria was about to use chemical weapons, Bruce Schneier discusses the limitations of intelligence gathering in a very thought...
View ArticleThe Latest FISC Opinion On the Legality of Telephone Record Collection
Earlier this week, the FISA Court released the opinion of a FISA Judge upholding the collection of telephone records under section 215. Benjamin Wittes and Jane Chong offer an detailed analysis at...
View ArticleMarty Lieberman on the Government’s Brief in Opposition to EPIC’s Mandamus...
The Eletronic Privacy Information Center recently filed a mandamus petition with the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the FISC’s “bulk telephony metadata” orders under section 215 of the...
View ArticleSpy vs. Spy
Yesterday, Opinion Juris featured an interesting back-and-forth between Peter Spiro and Julian Ku about reactions in the international community to recent press reports of overseas surveillance. Spiro...
View ArticleCombatting Chinese Hacking Post-Snowden
Kurt Eichenwald has an interesting new piece for Newsweek, provocatively titled “How Edward Snowden Escalated Cyber War With China,” concerning the increased challenges facing United States efforts to...
View ArticleLawfare’s Week-long Series of NSA Interviews
This weekend, Benjamin Wittes and Robert Chesney of Lawfare introduced a series of (authorized and unclassified) podcast interviews with senior NSA officials, entitled “Inside NSA: We Brought in a...
View ArticleMichael Morell on the Presidential Review Group’s NSA Recommendations
In the weeks since the December 12 release of the Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, much has been written and said about the...
View ArticleConcerns About the Post-Snowden Internet
In an op-ed appearing in yesterday’s Washington Post, David Ignatius worries that the future of the Internet could be less open, free, and secure as a result of a post-Snowden, anti-NSA backlash, in...
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