Domestic Surveillance
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What Biden Needs to Say About Surveillance Tech and Foreign Policy
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.
In the Wake of the January 6 Attacks, Will Congress and the Administration Heed the Lessons of 9/11?
The need to respond forcefully to the insurrection should not be conflated with the need for new legal authorities.
The Costs of 9/11’s Suspicionless Surveillance: Suppressing Communities of Color and Political Dissent
The domestic intelligence system has grown dramatically since 9/11, often targeting Muslims, people of color, and political movements. It's time to rethink the system.
Encryption Originalism
Encryption originalism views strong encryption as the modern reemergence of Founding Era practice of employing—often unbreakable—ciphers.
The Tucker Carlson Disinformation Show
Tucker Carlson's latest claims provide a textbook example of the disinformation techniques that fuel conspiracy theories – and illustrate what makes them so dangerous.
Protect Communications Privacy for All of Us—Not Just Lawmakers and Reporters
It’s Time for Congress to Finish What It Started After the Snowden Revelations.
Guardrails Needed for FBI Access to Social Media Monitoring
While social media analysis will be critical to investigations aimed at preventing acts of domestic terrorism, dragnet social media monitoring brings significant risks, and even…
The Future of U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Massive warrantless surveillance endangers both constitutional rights and U.S. competitiveness in a global information marketplace. There’s only one solution to these sets of…
New Technologies, New Problems – Troubling Surveillance Trends in America
The rapid advent of powerful digital surveillance technologies raises questions about the U.S. ability to maintain a balance between security and citizens' rights. Several troubling…
Can Governments Track the Pandemic and Still Protect Privacy?
A team of Europeans is creating a different contact-tracing tool that they say is designed to limit the collection and exposure of personal data.
Improve FISA on Civil Liberties by Strengthening Amici
A series of recommendations could position amici to make forceful civil liberties and privacy arguments, effecting change from within the FISA court system.
Deciphering the FISC’s Order on the Carter Page FISA Application
What will the Justice Department do in response to what it's learned about the FBI’s flawed application to wiretap Carter Page?