"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…
"Now, new research from Stanford graduate students Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler suggests that the NSA's dragnet could be bigger -- much bigger.…
Cross-posted from Slate. Cellphones are the spies in our pockets, gathering information about whom we befriend, what we say, where we go, and what we read. Tha…
"Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel at American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the push by the tech industry for reform of NSA surveillance program…
"In a statement on the Post's story, ACLU Staff Attorney Catherine Crump said: " It is staggering that a location-tracking program on this scale…
"“The dragnet surveillance of hundreds of millions of cell phones flouts our international obligation to respect the privacy of foreigners and Americans al…
Cross-posted from Just Security. By Jennifer Granick and Thomas Earnest Today’s Washington Post report that the National Security Agency (NSA) is gathering ne…
Cross-posted from Just Security. By Jennifer Granick and Thomas Earnest Today’s Washington Post report that the National Security Agency (NSA) is gathering ne…
Listen to the full radio interview at NPR Morning Edition. "JOHNSON: For experts who have followed surveillance for years, the sheer number of phone calls…
"Although she spent several years as a criminal defense attorney, defending “all kinds” of interesting characters, Jennifer Stisa Granick, the director of…
"Stanford researchers are trying to act like the NSA in order to learn about the NSA. Researchers Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler created MetaPhone, an…