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Your call and text records are far more revealing than you think
""The study has important implications for surveillance law and policy," says Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist and data privacy expert at P…
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Surveillance Oversight Should Be President-Proof, But We’re Still a Long Way Off
Last week, at an event co-hosted by Just Security and NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, the NSA’s Civil Liberties and Privacy Director Rebecca Richards dropped…
The NSA is massively reorganizing itself. That’s going to hurt its credibility
The National Security Agency has been having a tough time the last couple of years, as it takes the blame for widespread surveillance. It has just announced a m…
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Christie, Paul, and the NSA
"A study by the New America Foundation, a centrist Washington think tank, agreed: "Surveillance of American phone metadata has had no discernible impa…
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As Senate rejects cyber bill, privacy trumps security concerns
"Taken together, those measures could amount to a new backdoor for government surveillance, according to some experts. The revelation earlier this month th…
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Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
"The N.S.A.’s activities run “smack into law enforcement land,” said Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity scholar at Stanford Law School who has researched priv…
New Snowden Documents Reveal Government Collection Of Online Data
"WELNA: It could indeed. Hackers, by definition, are trying to break into other people's computer accounts and steal their information, so monitoring t…
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Back from the dead: US officials to ask secret court to revive NSA surveillance
"“Whether the NSA can restart this bulk collection is a novel question, and this decision should not be made in secret. The Fisa court should appoint an am…
A Sunset Is A Beautiful Thing
In the wake of a recent appellate court’s decision that the NSA’s domestic dragnet collection of phone call records is illegal, political support for maintainin…
Brown Bag Lunch Series | Jennifer Granick discusses Surveillance
Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties, presented her work with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and the impacts of Edward Snowden.…
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NSA ruling reveals the harm of secrecy to the nation
"“It shows how ineffective secret proceedings are for interpreting law,” said Jennifer Granick, a Stanford law lecturer and civil liberties director at the…
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Jonathan Mayer reflects on court case ruling NSA program illegal
"In an interview with The Daily, Jonathan Mayer J.D. ’13, a Cybersecurity Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) an…