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Snowden effect: White House, Hill offering reforms
"“We never had any real information about how these programs were used until now,” ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson said. “Reform efforts were…
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Top Democrat on House intelligence panel offers new NSA reform plan
"“This certainly doesn’t go as far as the USA Freedom Act,” said Michelle Richardson, the ACLU’s surveillance lobbyist. “Of course, the devil will be in t…
Guest Post: The NSA’s Culture of “Legal Compliance” Still Breaks the Law
Cross-posted from Just Security. Lately the NSA has been on a public relations offensive that has two principal aims. First, the agency is trying to convince t…
Peter Swire - Hearsay Culture - Show #204 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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CIS & The Day We Fight Back
Today, Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society joins Greenpeace, Mozilla, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Libertarian Party, and an array of ideologicall…
Don’t Close Your Eyes to Surveillance Dangers: A Response to Richard Epstein
Richard Epstein’s office at the Hoover Institution is less than a mile from mine at Stanford Law School, and I’ve had the pleasure to hear Richard speak to the…
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Former Bush Officials Knock RNC Call to End NSA Surveillance
""Were we really expected to believe that all these provisions allow the government to collect in bulk the telephone records — as well as Internet rec…
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NSA phone records program aids investigations, defenders say
"The collection of so much data diverts the attention of investigators from real terrorism plots, said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel with the Am…
Told Ya So: NSA's Collection Of Metadata Is Screamingly Illegal
This post is coauthored by Christopher Sprigman. We told you so. This week’s report from the independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, or PCLOB…
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Government spying affects all of us
""When you talk about privacy from government surveillance, it's actually not just about you," said Catherine Crump, an attorney with the Ame…
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New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years
"“Furthermore, given how broadly it's possible to define the word ‘tip,’ we have no information on how useful those thousand tips were,” Brian Pascal,…
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Obama lays down new limits on NSA, with more reforms to come
"“Some of the most disturbing revelations that came out over the last few months were the ones surrounding the NSA's attempts to weaken or circumvent e…