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…
"“We never had any real information about how these programs were used until now,” ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson said. “Reform efforts were…
"“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…
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…
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…
Today, Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society joins Greenpeace, Mozilla, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Libertarian Party, and an array of ideologicall…
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…
""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…
"The collection of so much data diverts the attention of investigators from real terrorism plots, said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel with the Am…
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…
""When you talk about privacy from government surveillance, it's actually not just about you," said Catherine Crump, an attorney with the Ame…
"“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,…
"“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…