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How Limited is 702?

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the series…
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Data-Mining, Section 215, and Regulating the Government’s Use of Stored Data: The Overlooked, but More Important, Question About NSA Surveillance

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the series…
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Highlights of the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the series…
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Foreigners and the Review Group Report: Part 2

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the series…
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President’s Review Board Says: Protect Thy Neighbor’s Privacy

[Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the Report by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Others in the series…
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Is the Draft UN Resolution on the Right to Privacy a Trojan Horse for Libertarians?

In response to recent revelations of NSA foreign surveillance programs, the UN General Assembly appears poised to adopt a Resolution on the international right to privacy. Because…
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Did the UN General Assembly Let the US Entirely Off the Hook on the Right to Privacy?

In early December the UN General Assembly will adopt, almost certainly by consensus, a resolution on “the right to privacy in the digital age.”  Intensive negotiations at…
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The New US “Red Line” – No Privacy Rights For Foreigners

Colum Lynch has a fascinating blog at Foreign Policy based on a leaked memo reflecting the United States’ latest “redline”:  that no privacy rights be recognized for foreigners…
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Creative Ambiguity – International Law’s Distant Relationship with Peacetime Spying

In all the sound and fury over “five eye” intercept programs, commentators appear so far to have paid relatively little attention to international law.  This is no simple…
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Spy v. Spy?: The coming push to create an EU spy agency to counteract the NSA

In an interview on Monday, a senior EU official, Commissioner of Justice Viviane Reding unveiled, in broad brushstrokes, a proposal to create a spy agency to counteract the NSA.…
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A “Hardy Perennial”: US Intelligence Operations Targeting Foreign Leaders

At Tuesday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, it is a “hardy perennial as long as I have been in the intelligence…
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We Are All Foreigners: NSA Spying and the Rights of Others

The New York Times reports today that President Obama is expected to ban eavesdropping on the phones of our allies’ presidents and prime ministers.  There is no indication,…
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