Randy Barnett writes: The Federalist Society’s journal Engage has an interesting Symposium on the National Security Agency’s Bulk Data Seizures and FISA Surveillance Programs. The symposium includes my very brief essay with Cato’s Jim Harper, Why NSA’s Bulk Data Seizures Are Illegal and Unconstitutional. In it we contend that: Rather than airy and untethered speculations about “reasonable expectations,” the…
Month: November 2013
Stormy Harbour: EU urges US to make personal data transfers safer
Anna Fielder writes: We, and other privacy advocates, have criticised the poor provisions of the so-called Safe Harbour agreement, which allows free transfers of personal information from European countries to companies in the United States that have signed up and promise to abide by its Principles. Now the European Commission, prompted by the recent mass surveillance scandals,…
House Report on the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2014
Sabrina I. Pacifici writes: Intelligence Authorization Act for 2014. H.R. 113-227. November 25, 2013.–Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. Rogers of Michigan, from the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, submitted the following. HR 113-227 Read more on BeSpacific.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American site visitors! News updates will resume tonight. For now, I’ve got to get cooking. I wish you all a great day filled with family and friends and laughter.