The Nation
Just as the Assange saga consumes too much of Alex Gibney’s film, so today’s Snowden obsession deflects attention away from our sprawling surveillance state.
June 18, 2013
Here’s a recipe for diluting the debate about our surveillance state: start talking about the foibles ...
Category: Surveillance and Privacy
Was Petraeus Borked?
The New Yorker Online
When a D.C. video store revealed the Supreme Court nominee’s list of video rentals, it sparked a privacy backlash and a new law. Similarly, the Petraeus affair has put the government’s vast surveillance powers – even of elites – in a critical context.
11/14/2012
In ...
Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
ProPublica
As the Senate considers a bill to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity, some questionable numbers keep creeping into the discussion.
08/31/2012
This story was co-authored with Megha Rajagopalan
Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber ...
That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker
The New York Times
July 15, 2012
This article was co-authored with Megha Rajagopalan.
The device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone — guess again. It is a tracking device that happens to make calls. Let’s stop calling them phones. They are trackers.
Most doubts about the principal ...
How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy
ProPublica
June 28, 2012
Jonathan Mayer had a hunch.
A gifted computer scientist, Mayer suspected that online advertisers might be getting around browser settings that are designed to block tracking devices known as cookies. If his instinct was right, advertisers were following people as they moved from ...