What’s all the fuss? It’s only metadata.
Glenn Greenwald in the Guardian: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a...
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Domestic surveillance
The NY Times editorial board asks the right questions re domestic surveillance (emphasis mine): For years, as the federal surveillance state grew into every corner of American society, the highest...
View Article“Don’t be evil.”
An open letter from Google’s chief legal officer: Dear Attorney General Holder and Director Mueller Google has worked tremendously hard over the past fifteen years to earn our users’ trust. For...
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Background information on the NSA’s PRISM program: Electronic Frontier Foundation: What We Need to Know About PRISM The Volokh Conspiracy: NSA and FBI Have Real-Time Access to Major U.S. Internet...
View ArticleDaniel Drezner: Man, the State, and Trust
Not often do I read something and think “I wish I had written that.” Daniel Drezner, Man, the State, and Trust is one of those (emphasis is mine): …I do feel compelled … to blog about Edward Snowden,...
View ArticleRead Charlie Pierce
Three recent posts at esquire.com: Civil Liberties Are Not Something You Trade The Snowden Effect A Phrase That Doesn’t Pay
View ArticleSenators Merkley and Lee introduce bill to declassify FISA court opinions
From the press release on Sen. Merkley’s website (emphasis mine): June 11, 2013 Washington, DC – Today, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), accompanied by Senators Patrick Leahy...
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Tom Tomorrow, The NSA comes clean
“It’s the cloud backup you never even knew you had!”:
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