Privacy

Will Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court press for further reforms or defer the matter to politics when it decides on the issue later this month?

Bluetooth contact-tracing apps could be a tool for returning to some version of normal, but only within limits and with robust safeguards,

As in the days after 9/11, the current challenges stemming from COVID-19 seem unprecedented. But the parallels are striking.

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.

Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…

It is imperative that States and their citizens question how much freedom and privacy should be sacrificed to limit the impact of this pandemic.

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

"There’s a grave threat to individual liberty, privacy, and racial justice. A balance needs to be struck. But it will not be struck by continuing to act lawlessly, which is to…

How might we move toward accountability in the face of irreconcilable clashes between Rights-era and Public Health-era values, particularly given the serious practical and civil…

It remains to be seen how this new clash will resolve itself, but the stakes have only increased for both sides.

"The Inspector General's report fails to turn up anything resembling a Deep State cabal within the FBI plotting against the president, or deliberate abuse of surveillance authorities…

Last week's FISA Court opinions provide even more evidence that the current system fails to adequately protect Americans’ privacy.