“Burr-Feinstein may be the most insane thing I've ever seen seriously offered as a piece of legislation. It is ‘do magic’ in legalese,” tweeted Julian Sanchez, a senior Cato Institute fellow studying privacy and technology.
Microsoft is suing the government for the right to tell customers when law enforcement is reading their email.
How a middle-aged pro-democracy activist was falsely accused of terrorism and placed on a top-secret NSA surveillance list.
A former assistant inspector general at the Pentagon who was responsible for protecting whistleblowers became one himself when the process failed.
Feds tell locals that they need to find other ways "to corroborate information concerning the location of the target obtained through the use of this equipment” if they want to introduce it at trial.
PRISM and Upstream are aimed at "foreign targets" but scoop up a potentially vast number of communications involving innocent Americans.
An anonymous $20 million gift to George Mason University was conditioned upon naming its law school after Scalia, truly honoring the late justice’s legacy of allowing corporations and the wealthy to buy influence under a shroud of secrecy.
The decision was based on jurisdictional rules the government hopes the Supreme Court will change within the next few weeks.
The searches for terms “concerning a known U.S. person” were conducted on a massive NSA database ostensibly collected for foreign intelligence purposes.
Our correspondent braves the Davos of the West Coast, and leaves shaking his head.
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