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It happened Friday. Here's the White House Statement:
In January 2014, President Obama directed an end to the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it then existed, and called for the establishm...
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Do you worry that the NSA, perhaps in a joint program with the U.S.
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The Senate panel, led by Chairman John Thune (R-SD), will discuss internet governance matters this morning at 10:00 a.m.
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In a recent debate between NSA director Mike Rogers and Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, the topic of law-enforcement restricted access to encrypted communications once again came up...
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Following my post from last week regarding how the debate over the Snowden disclosures has blurred the distinctions between national security surveillance authorities and consumer privacy law, Tim Edgar...
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Like a lot of Lawfare readers, we were pretty surprised by Citizenfour's triumph at the Oscars last night. It wasn't just that there was Glenn Greenwald, foe of all things mainstream, holding---of all th...
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Last night, Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, a win I have been anticipating since Glenn Greenwald won the Pulitzer Prize back in April for breaking the ...
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It is a common perception that Americans care less about privacy than Europeans, especially after the attacks of September 11, and the Snowden revelations only seemed to reinforce that perception. Last w...
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President Obama made a refreshing observation during an interview with Re/Code at the White House Summit on Cyber Security and Consumer Protection in Silicon Valley last week. Following an exchange regar...
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As many know, the White House held a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University today. In addition to President Obama, a number of CEOs also spoke on privacy and security iss...
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One year ago, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) reviewed the National Security Agency’s bulk telephony metadata program and concluded the program was both illegal and imprudent as a...
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As we continue to read through documents released on February 3 that collectively detail the intelligence community's efforts to implement Presidential Policy Directive-28, (PPD-28), we thought it woul...