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Cato Institute scholar Julian Sanchez has this lengthy interview with a podcast called Free Thoughts from libertarianism.org on the NSA controversies.
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For quite a while it has been the case that properly implemented encryption will defeat efforts to crack it (at least using current technology). Yet it has been the case for an equally long time that ver...
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I was at the National Security Agency yesterday giving a Constitution Day speech and I learned details of a shocking collection program: The government is bulk collecting all traffic on Twitter. Under a ...
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Readers likely recall that last week, documents from the In Re Directives litigation, regarding foreign intelligence surveillance directives issued to Yahoo!, were declassified.
Chief among them: a new ...
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Last week appellees in Klayman v. Obama filed a motion for the court's leave to televise the oral argument, scheduled for November 4, 2014. The D.C.
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Late last week, the Department of Justice released two memos authored by Lawfare's own Jack Goldsmith back when he was the head of the Office of Legal Counsel ("OLC") in the Bush Administration. The memo...
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The Foreign Intelligence Court of Review ("FISCR") issued this order today. It concerns the FISC's 2008 opinion in In Re Directives, an appeal brought by Yahoo! and regarding directives for warrantless e...
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This Friday, the U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a session to discuss the right to privacy in the digital age. The Council is considering these issues in the wake of a General Assembly Resolution ado...
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The Department of Justice recently released two Office of Legal Counsel opinions by Lawfare's own Jack Goldsmith from 2004. The first memo provides a lengthy and at times heavily-redacted justification f...
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And now for something completely different: Cyborgs. No, this is not a joke. For years, certain technology enthusiasts have floated variations on the question of whether we are becoming cyborgs---or alre...
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It looks like it's time for Lawfare to update an old post of ours, "Who is Saying What about the Leahy Surveillance Bill."
On September 2, Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intellig...