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Secret FISA Court Must Go
Chris Sprigman and I have a new piece up at The Daily Beast about NSA illegal mass surveillance. This time we're looking at the role of the secret FISA Cour…
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Congress and the Justice Dept's Dangerous Attempts to Define “Journalist” Threaten to Exclude Bloggers
Cross-posted from EFF. Lawmakers in Washington are again weighing in on who should and should not qualify as a journalist—and the outcome looks pretty grim for…
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Calling All Big Data Experts for Amicus Brief in Phone Records Surveillance Cases
As you may know, both the ACLU and EPIC have brought legal challenges to the NSA's collection of Americans' phone records and related traffic data (meta…
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Mozilla, Professors, Scientists, Researchers Stand Up for Weev
Today the Mozilla Foundation joined an illustrious group of computer scientists and privacy researchers in an amicus brief the Center for Internet and Society f…
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Without My Consent is Seeking Research Participants to Better Understand Online Harassment
Online stalking, harassment, and invasions of privacy can be incredibly destructive. Yet very little empirical data exisits regarding these incidents. This pauc…
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ODNI Statements Continue to Mislead the Public
Senior U.S. officials continue to mislead the public about NSA surveillance. As the Washington Post reported today, "details that have emerged from the ex…
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Calling All Security Researchers for Amicus Brief in U.S. v. Auernheimer (weev)
We at the Center for Internet and Society are writing an amicus brief on Weev's behalf. Signatories must join by JULY 5th. Email me if you want to be a si…
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OpEd-pocylpse on NSA's illegal and unwise surveillance
This morning, the NY Times posted my op-ed, co-authored with CIS affiliate scholar Chris Sprigman, arguing that the two federal statutes the Obama Administratio…
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Tool Without A Handle: The Dark Side
“Tool Without a Handle: The Dark Side” “Chaos, control. Chaos, control. You like, you like?” - John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation Every tool can be m…
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Border Militarization Unacceptable Compromise
The Corker-Hoeven Amendment moved one step closer to being added to Senate Bill 744 yesterday with a 67-27 vote on a motion to invoke cloture. The Corker-Hoeve…
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Surveillance Myth #1: I Have Nothing to Hide
In the public debate over secret NSA spying, we keep hearing three refrains to justify, or at least accommodate people, to the U.S. government's surveillanc…
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Center for Internet and Society Launches “Cookie Clearinghouse” to Enable User Choice for Online Tracking
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School launched a new online privacy initiative today called the “Cookie Clearinghouse,” which will em…