Digital Surveillance

The intended crime-fighting proposals could force encrypted-messaging services to abandon basic confidentiality or pull out of the market.

Hype and untested promises have accelerated deployment of artificial intelligence, biometrics, and more, in the dubious name of security.

The new secretary-general of the standard-setting body will have global impact on whether the digital sphere will be beneficial for all.

If Roe is overturned, states will likely use sweeping digital surveillance tools to enforce abortion bans.

CTED's "best practices" on biometrics miss a key dimension: international human rights law guidance.

Despite its “going dark” claims, the FBI can obtain a remarkable amount of user data from secure messaging apps that collectively have several billion global users.

When technology has expanded to nearly every corner of our lives, how much control should users have over the devices they own?

Of the many abuses that sprung from the Patriot Act’s toxic soil, the most pernicious and enduring is the growth of secret laws. The insistence that the government must not only…

20 years ago, Congress enacted the PATRIOT Act. It's time to move on from that outmoded model of surveillance.

Western countries have critiqued China's use of surveillance tech while continuing to export these tools. It's time to align human rights and trade policies.

Encryption originalism views strong encryption as the modern reemergence of Founding Era practice of employing—often unbreakable—ciphers.

It’s Time for Congress to Finish What It Started After the Snowden Revelations.