"In a company blog posting, Google legal director Richard Salgado noted that “Government requests for user information in criminal cases have increased by…
""Our phone records are sensitive, but so are our financial records, Internet information, email data," said Michelle Richardson, the ACLU's…
"“As data security becomes a progressively more important aspect of corporate governance, and as consumers become progressively more concerned with the sta…
""USA Freedom is more comprehensive and it's essential that it pass to fix much of what is wrong with domestic surveillance," Jennifer Granic…
"“It’s an escalation of censorship efforts,” said Andrew McLaughlin, who was a policy director at Google from 2003 to 2009 and worked on Turkish issues.&qu…
"As Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who studies cyber-harassment, put it to me in an email this morning, "A federal criminal l…
"But Michelle Richardson, a legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the impact on the scope isn't clear, and that the adminis…
""It's very clear there are enormous loopholes," said Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internat…
Last week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. is spying on router company Huawei to get information about the Chinese government and to learn how to surv…
The Internet makes lives better, around the world, in ways people couldn't have imagined not even a decade ago. It sparks prosperity, inspires dissent, impr…
""What surprised us was how much sensitive information was crammed into the metadata," said Jonathan Mayer, a doctoral candidate and a cybersecur…
"“We never had any real information about how these programs were used until now,” ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson said. “Reform efforts were…