National Security Agency (NSA)
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Why Do So Many American ‘Journalists’ Appear To Hate Actual Journalism?
The question was directed at Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who broke the story of NSA surveillance using material provided by on-the-lam leaker Edward Snowden. The person grilling Greenwald wasn’t a government prosecutor [...]. Read More »
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Why Representative Democracies Can't Write Off Transparency
This week, arguing that “transparency is overrated,” Amitai Etzioni presented a familiar critique. In his telling, transparency is ineffective because people cannot or do not act on disclosed information in ways that affect real policy outcomes. What he misses is that disclosure occurs within an ecosystem of interest groups and advocacy organizations that remix, repackage, and redistribute information once it is released. [...] Read More »
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Why Should We Even Care If The Government Is Collecting Our Data?
Kafka, not Orwell, can help us understand the problems of digitized mass surveillance, argues legal scholar Daniel J. Solove. Read More »
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Why The Smart Grid Might Be A Dumb Idea
Foreign hackers don't just pose a threat to classified material, corporate secrets, and individual privacy. Security experts say the greatest cyberthreat to the United States is the fact that the Chinese and Russian governments—and possibly other players—have succeeded in hacking into the nation's electric grid, giving them the ability, if they wish, to bring the U.S. economy to a screeching halt with the click of a mouse. Read More »
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Why We Should Care About What The NSA May Or May Not Be Doing
Response to NSA data mining and the troubling lack of technical details, Facebook's Open Compute data center, and local police are growing their own DNA databases. Read More »
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Why Your Metadata Is Your Every Move
The metadata that the National Security Agency collects on all calls in the U.S. is not just what's on a phone bill, as the program's supporters have claimed. Read More »
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Why You’ll Want A Do-It-Yourself, NSA-Proof, Open-Source Laptop (Interview)
Andrew “Bunnie” Huang lists a bunch of reasons why you’ll want his open-source laptop, the Novena. You can modify it yourself so that its battery will last however long you want it to.
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Will PRISM Hinder State And Local Open-Data Efforts?
In recent years, many state and local governments have put effort into open data projects that would inspire developers to create apps and find ways to use public data to bring value to their communities. Read More »
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[BackChannel] The Promise Of "Small Data"
Big Data -- the idea that the ability to aggregate and sift through vast amounts of data can yield key insights about our society and provide the basis for better decision-making -- has a fatal flaw... Read More »
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‘We Kill People Based On Metadata’
If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.”
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