CPJ joins call urging White House to protect encryption for journalists
Journalists are safest when their devices are secure by default. That is why the Committee to Protect Journalists today joined a coalition of nearly 150 civil s…
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ACLU v. Clapper Will End the Telephone Dragnet
Cross-posted from Just Security. Last week’s dramatic Second Circuit decision in ACLU v. Clapper, invalidated the alleged legal basis for the NSA domestic phon…
The Intelligence Time Machine
On Tuesday, members in the House and Senate introduced new versions of the USA Freedom Act that would prohibit bulk collection of records under Section 215 of t…
Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies
Once upon a time, a journalist never gave up a confidential source. When someone comes forward, anonymously, to inform the public, it's better to risk time…
Not ‘digital exhaust;’ rather ‘digital fossils’
Recently a member of Congress got into some pretty serious hot water over allegations he accepted numerous unethical, and perhaps illegal, favors including flig…
Two continents, two courts, two approaches to privacy
At 3:20 a.m. on August 24, 2014, the strongest earthquake in a quarter-centuryrocked the San Francisco Bay Area, causing damage widely estimated at between $300…
The right to life and the Martens Clause
Patrick Lin made interesting observations on the ethical notion of human dignity in the context of LAWS. Even if LAWS could act in accordance with IHL, taking o…
What’s new in the U.S. cyber strategy
The Department of Defense has just issued a new cyber strategy, which perhaps provides the best public presentation of how the United States thinks about cybers…
The new German spying scandal is a big deal
German media organizations, such as Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, are reporting on Thursday on a spying scandal that threatens to create new controversy over the NS…
What’s behind the Gazprom crisis?
The European Union has opened an initial antitrust case against Gazprom, the Russian government-owned gas and energy giant. It is accusing Gazprom of abusing it…
China's Great Cannon: New weapon to suppress free speech online
China, rated as the eighth most censored country in the world, in a report released by CPJ today, has long had a strong line of defense against free speech onli…
U.S. Policy on the ICC Crime of Aggression Announced
At the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law earlier this month,Professor Michael J. Matheson of George Washington University Law School c…