Last week, the EU and the US announced something important that sounds pretty boring — a new “privacy shield” agreement. You should know it’s important, because in the midst of dealing wi...
The CIA has delivered a rather curious response to a records requester. J.M. Porup sent a FOIA request to the agency asking it for documents about its rather well-documented assassination attempt...
The Privacy Shield framework is key to allowing personal data to flow legally across the Atlantic from the EU to the US. As we’ve noted several times this year, there are a number of reasons to...
I know that the cynical among you already assume — falsely — that the surveillance state ignores all rules and spies willy nilly on everyone. That is not true. However, they do have a long an...
Wyden 12333 Letter (PDF) Wyden 12333 Letter (Text)
Nunes 12333 Letter (PDF) Nunes 12333 Letter (Text) Nunes to Pclob (PDF) Nunes to Pclob (Text)
Late last night, the NY Times broke a very troubling story. Rather than finally putting an end to Executive Order 12333, it appears that President Obama is going to expand the power of it in dang...
We already wrote a bit about the absolutely ridiculous attempts to connect the Paris attacks of last week with Ed Snowden and encryption. But, of course, the surveillance state sees successful te...
On Friday, we posted a story looking at the divergent views of two of my favorite privacy experts: Jennifer Granick favoring just letting the three PATRIOT Act clauses to sunset… and Julian San...
Both houses of Congress set up their respective “Select Committees on Intelligence” in the mid-1970s as basically permanent extensions of the Church and Pike Committees that dug into widespre...