Digital Surveillance

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.

The monetization of personal data poses a direct threat to civil rights and democracy. The good news: the Biden-Harris administration has an opportunity to check this destructive…

App stores make natural chokepoints for de facto government regulation, without the long and politically expensive process of legislation. But the privacy and security implications…

WhatsApp claims NSO implanted spyware on phones of human rights activists, lawyers, and religious figures. NSO says it can't be sued if it did so on behalf of (undisclosed) foreign…

"Government officials need to listen to stakeholders and technologists who are not trying to promote private companies’ interests in infection control programs."