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Tag: Privacy and Surveillance

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

Candice Delmas

On the subversive fiction of East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig

Tyler Curtis

We need new privacy law for the digital age.

Neil M. Richards

The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.

Joseph Margulies

The “nothing to see here” tone of a recent intelligence report shows Obama is not concerned about our civil liberties. That is why we should be.

Elizabeth Goitein

A little surveillance can do us a lot of good.

William H. Simon

The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.

Elizabeth Goitein

The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.

Elizabeth Goitein

Is it naïve to see whistleblowing as a form of civil disobedience?

William E. Scheuerman

The internet has become an environment of total tracking and total control.

Neil M. Richards

Forum

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

Reed Hundt

Forum

We invited poets to contribute new works, entering into a larger dialogue on what it means to have open eyes and ears in the twenty-first century. Poems by Armantrout, Ashbery, Bernstein, Pinsky, and others.

Andrew Ridker

We are at a critical point in the history of our civil liberties.

Neil M. Richards

In the post-Snowden world, it is hard to imagine a more consequential fork in the road.

Elizabeth Goitein

Toward Distributed Security in Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert

The phenomenology of a drone strike.

Nasser Hussain

Any literate person could recognize that the essay was a work of art. But Google’s family-friendly algorithm decided it was porn.

Joel Whitney

Did you know that when you buy a mobile phone, you waive any right to privacy in your movements?

Neil M. Richards

If we already know the government violated the law, the fact that its actions were subject to oversight does not excuse the violation.

Elizabeth Goitein

On the limitations of secret judicial review.

Elizabeth Goitein

Taking Issue with Jack Goldsmith

Elizabeth Goitein

On New Challenges to the Fourth Amendment.

Pamela S. Karlan

By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.

Evgeny Morozov

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