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The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts today released its statutorily mandated annual report on activities of the FISA courts.
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The government has released the second annual Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on Activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts as required by the USA F...
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Beijing has published a bevy of laws, regulations, and policy statements over the past six months on cyber governance (here, here, and here).
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Yesterday morning, Microsoft released, along with its most recent biannual transparency reports, a 2014 National Security Letter (NSL) from the FBI which sought “data belonging to a customer of our consu...
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Germany’s latest national cyber security strategy emphasizes “security through encryption” and “security despite encryption” as the main pillars of the government’s crypto policy. If you see a controdict...
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This afternoon, we published an op-ed in the Washington Post explaining some of the basics of "unmasking" in an effort to offer a bit of context to the headlines. While it is written for a general intere...
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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California was handed a First Amendment case yesterday morning involving the rights of Twitter users to remain anonymous if the government does not wa...
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You can always tell when it’s time to reauthorize a portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) because Congress starts wringing its hands about some aspect of the law. FISA is a law that...
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The U.S. intelligence community is on the verge of a crisis of confidence and legitimacy it has not experienced since the 1970s. Back then, the crisis was one of the community’s own behavior. In the 1950...
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As the U.S. reexamines its trade policy, commentators following U.S.-China affairs have noted an important area that has not received as much attention as the bilateral trade in goods but may one day riv...
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This is the second part of a three-part series on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s handling of cyber issues. In this collection of cases, Judge Gorsuch identifies the uniqueness of computer searches and the accompan...
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All 11 judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court will rehear an ACLU claim that it has standing to assert a First Amendment right to see FISC decisions upholding the government’s bulk data co...