My former ONI colleague Rafal Rohozinski, now of Information Warfare Monitor, has a great interview where he discusses methodology and findings for both projects. Well worth a read!
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Works in more places… I suppose the fake place name would be NSFrancisPying. (Hat tip to an anonymous friend!)
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the Sixth Circuit’s ruling that the plaintiffs in the NSA suit here in Michigan lacked standing. The hard part, of course, is it’s extremely difficult to prove standing [...]
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Robert O’Harrow, a Washington Post reporter who is very insightful and current in his coverage of data privacy (and author of a good book on it too), today chronicles the inevitable first stirrings of government fear about virtual worlds such as Second Life:
Intelligence officials who have examined these systems say they’re convinced that the qualities [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, NSA, Virtual Worlds, national security
The Washington Post has published a powerful op-ed piece by the anonymous recipient of one of the FBI’s national security letters, who is prohibited by law from disclosing even the fact that he received one. National security letters (or “NSLs”) are the demands for information, issued without any requirement of judicial approval, that were [...]
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Activists and policy wonks who work with environmental issues take it for granted that private corporate activities and markets lie at the center of both the problems and the potential solutions (like this and this) to issues such as water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction. Organizations like Ceres work with businesses to help [...]
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Bill and I wrote about the government’s program of warrantless surveillance of certain electronic communications a while ago. Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who sits on the federal district court here in Detroit, issued a decision finding the program (dubbed the “Terrorist Surveillance Program” by the Bush administration – legal argument by nomenclature?) unconstitutional. The [...]
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One of my collagues here at Minnesota, Heidi Kitrosser, has finally got off the sidelines and is beginning a stint as a guest blogger at Concurring Opinions. She specializes in the extraordinarily timely topics of government secrecy and separation of powers (since before it was trendy). I have the great benefit of Heidi’s commentary just [...]
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Bill’s excellent (and fast!) post on Judge Taylor’s decision in ACLU v. NSA raises several fascinating points. Here in Detroit, the law school is abuzz about the case, and my colleague Bob Sedler is doing a host of television and press interviews on the constitutional law implications. I’m not expert on consitutional law [...]
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This just in: a federal judge in Michigan has ruled, in a suit brought by the ACLU, that the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional. Here is an AP story and here (via CNET) is the decision.
On state secrets, the judge here (Anna Diggs Taylor) followed the lead of Judge Vaughn Walker in the [...]
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Federal Judge Vaughn Walker has denied motions to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s lawsuit against AT&T, which alleges that the telco unlawfully participated in the National Security Agency’s electronic surveillance program. The federal government moved to dismiss on the grounds that state secrets would necessarily be revealed during a trial. Judge Walker stated [...]
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