The Politics of the EU Court Data Retention Opinion: End to Mass Surveillance?
The Wall Street Journal headlines: “EU Court Opinion: Data Retention Directive Incompatible With Fundamental Rights”. The Opinion is strong, but in fact not yet an outright victory to privacy and civil...
View ArticleSigning Mass Surveillance Declarations and Petitions: Should Academics Take a...
Quite often, especially since the Snowden revelations began, tech policy academics will be approached by NGO’s and colleagues to sign petitions ‘to end mass surveillance’. It’s not always easy to...
View ArticleWill Greenwald's New Book Reveal How to Conduct Warrantless Bulk Surveillance...
Tomorrow, Glenn Greenwald’s highly anticipated book ‘No Place to Hide’ goes on sale. Apart from personal accounts on working with whisteblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and elsewhere, Mr. Greenwald...
View Article"Loopholes for Circumventing the Constitution", the NSA Statement, and Our...
CBS News and a host of other outlets have covered my new paper with Sharon Goldberg, Loopholes for Circumventing the Constitution: Warrantless Bulk Surveillance on Americans by Collecting Network...
View ArticleExpert Panel Report: A New Governance Model for Communications Security?
Today, the vulnerable state of electronic communications security dominates headlines across the globe, while surveillance, money and power increasingly permeate the ‘cybersecurity’ policy arena. With...
View ArticleA clear line between offense and defense
The New York Times, in an editorial today entitled “Arms Control for a Cyberage“, writes, The problem is that unlike conventional weapons, with cyberweapons “there’s no clear line between offense and...
View ArticleWho Will Secure the Internet of Things?
Over the past several months, CITP-affiliated Ph.D. student Sarthak Grover and fellow Roya Ensafi been investigating various security and privacy vulnerabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in...
View ArticleBrexit Exposes Old and Deepening Data Divide between EU and UK
After the Brexit vote, politicians, businesses and citizens are all wondering what’s next. In general, legal uncertainty permeates Brexit, but in the world of bits and bytes, Brussels and London have...
View ArticleElection security as a national security issue
We recently learned that Russian state actors may have been responsible for the DNC emails recently leaked to Wikileaks. Earlier this spring, once they became aware of the hack, the DNC hired...
View ArticleSecurity against Election Hacking – Part 2: Cyberoffense is not the best...
State and county election officials across the country employ thousands of computers in election administration, most of them are connected (from time to time) to the internet (or exchange data...
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