Latest in surveillance
Last month the European Court of Human Rights found that various U.K. surveillance practices violate the Right to Privacy in the European Convention. The case is a great opportunity to better understand what is—and is not—similar about U.S. and EU legal frameworks in this area.
How to understand the NSA’s June 28 announcement about its call-detail record databases.
When reading about Snowden, keep in mind the dedicated NSA employees who strive to uphold the rule of law and protect their country.
Summaries of the NSA’s filings about data it accidentally deleted in violation of a preservation order.
The U.S. needs to start thinking about how to respond to domestic surveillance in other countries.
In this surveillance-heavy episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck dig into a raft of news about foreign-intelligence collection authorities.
ODNI's transparency report contains loads of interesting information. In this post, I'd like to draw attention to the statistics on use of the FISA Business Records authority, 50 USC 1861.
A handy FAQ-style overview of the easily-confused issues associated with the surveillance side of the controversy surrounding HPSCI Chair Devin Nunes.
A few days, ago, I wrote this post exploring a 1945 memo from TJAG Myron Cramer regarding various legal issues surrounding the program that evolved into Operation Shamrock (as well as various other, more-conventional, collection activities). At the time I didn't feel free to provide a PDF of the memo itself, since I'd gotten it through the (for-pay) ProQuest database.
Alan Z. Rozenshtein, a former contributor to Lawfare who now works at DOJ, has a new article forthcoming in Stanford Law Review, "Surveillance Intermediaries," analyzing the role of corporate actors such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and others, that dominate digital communications and data storage, situated between government and targets of surveillance.