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EPIC: “The Department of Homeland Security has released a Privacy Impact Assessment for Einstein 3 – Accelerated. Einstein 3 is a government cybersecurity program that monitors Internet traffic. The monitoring includes scanning email destined for .gov networks for malicious attachments and URLs. According to DHS, the basis of the governments authority to perform the monitoring …
EPIC: “New documents obtained by EPIC in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal that the Department of Defense advised private industry on how to best circumvent federal wiretap law. The documents concern a collaboration between the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and private companies to allow government monitoring of private Internet networks. …
EPIC: “The White House has released an unclassified summary of Presidential Policy Directive 20. The Policy Directive sets out the cybersecurity authority of the National Security Agency in the United States and has raised concerns about government surveillance of the Internet. The existence of the Directive was detailed in a story in the Washington Post …
Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report “We have made a number of changes to this years report, including two new chapters. The first is on Promoting and Protecting Human Rights through the UN, and describes our work on human rights through the UN the forum in which the UK …
“The Constitution Projects Task Force on Detainee Treatment is an independent, bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel charged with examining the federal governments policies and actions related to the capture, detention and treatment of suspected terrorists during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. The project was undertaken with the belief that it was important to provide an account …
CRS – Covert Action: Legislative Background and Possible Policy Questions, Marshall Curtis Erwin, Analyst in Intelligence and National Security, April 10, 2013 “Senior U.S. intelligence community officials have conceded that the line separating Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and DOD intelligence activities has blurred, making it more difficult to distinguish between the traditional secret intelligence missions …
Gideons Army Produced and directed by Georgetown Law graduate Dawn Porter: “A 2013 Sundance award winning documentary, Gideon’s Army follows the personal stories of three young public defenders in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. As of this spring, it has been 50 years …
“EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI to obtain documents about “Next Generation Identification“, a massive database with biometric identifiers on millions of Americans. The EPIC lawsuit follows the FBI’s failure to respond to EPIC’s earlier FOIA requests for technical specifications and contracts. According to EPIC’s complaint, “When completed, the …
Drones in Domestic Surveillance Operations: Fourth Amendment Implications and Legislative Responses. Richard M. Thompson II, Legislative Attorney. April 3, 2013 “The prospect of drone use inside the United States raises far-reaching issues concerning the extent of government surveillance authority, the value of privacy in the digital age, and the role of Congress in reconciling these …
Toward an International Law of the Internet, Molly Land, New York Law School, November 19, 2012, Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 54, 2013 (Forthcoming) via SSRN. “This Article presents the first and only analysis of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as it applies to new technologies and uses this …
The Dangers of Surveillance, Neil M. Richards. Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law, March 25, 2013. Harvard Law Review, 2013. Via SSRN “From the Fourth Amendment to George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, our law and literature are full of warnings about state scrutiny of our lives. These warnings are commonplace, but they are …
Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence to United States Senate covering the period January 5, 2011 – January 3, 2013, 113th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Report 113-7. “A major focus of the Committee’s oversight agenda is the review of existing intelligence programs and proposed legislation to ensure that U.S. person privacy rights and civil …
