""Harry Reid is going to have the ultimate say on this," ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson told The Huffington Post earlier this month…
Today, the federal District Court for the District of Columbia held that the NSA's bulk telephone metadata collection program under the USA PATRIOT Act viol…
Cross-posted from Forbes. In the wake of today’s tremendously important ruling by the District Court for the District of Columbia that bulk collection of telep…
"“If the NSA were to mistakenly classify domestic servers as outside the United States, even at low rates, it would acquire a substantial amount of purely…
Cross-posted from Slate. By Edward Felten and Jonathan Mayer Snooping on the Internet is tricky. The network is diffuse, global, and packed with potential tar…
"Michelle Richardson, the ACLU’s surveillance lobbyist, said the organization would wait for a public release of the report to evaluate its merits, but sai…
"“Nothing short of stopping the mass, suspicionless surveillance of Americans is acceptable,” said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel at the ACLU’s W…
"Tracking cookies offers the NSA the perfect system for following suspects across the web: it's pervasive, persistent, and for the most part, it's…
"Now, new research from Stanford graduate students Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler suggests that the NSA's dragnet could be bigger -- much bigger.…
"Privacy advocates have pushed to create a "Do Not Track" system allowing consumers to opt out of such tracking. But Jonathan Mayer of Stanford&#…
"To put it simply, said Mayer, “Suppose, for example, that a suspicious number is phoned by a Skype user; a different Skype user has called FedEx; and you…
"Marvin Ammori, a lawyer who advises technology companies including Google on surveillance issues, wrote in USA Today that "limiting bulk data collect…