Robert Knowles (Valparaiso): National Security Rulemaking. Matthew Crosston (Bellevue): Soft Spying: Leveraging Globalization as Proxy Military Rivalry. Lauren Henry (Yale): Privacy as Quasi-Property. Jeffrey S. Brand (USF): Eavesdropping on Our Founding Fathers: How a Return to the Republic's Core Democratic Values Can Help Us Resolve the Surveillance Crisis. Robert H. Sloan (UIC) and Richard Warner (Chicago-Kent): The Self, the Stasi, the NSA: Privacy, Knowledge, and Complicity in the Surveillance State. Ruth Coustick-Deal on the real impact of surveillance: Mass surveillance isn't the security blanket that politicians are holding it up to be — for many people surveillance makes them less safe. Dara Lind on how the Department of Homeland Security is a total disaster — it's time to abolish it. Glenn Greenwald on the Orwellian re-branding of “mass surveillance” as merely “bulk collection”. Sen. Ron Wyden says the U.S. government is still spying on Americans and administration officials aren’t being held accountable.
Maurice Dawson (Missouri), Marwan Omar (Nawroz), Jonathan Abramson (Colorado Technical), and Dustin Bessette (NGS): The Future of National and International Security on the Internet. John G. Francis and Leslie P. Francis (Utah): Privacy, Confidentiality, and Justice. The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records — but is that the best way to catch a terrorist? Cory Doctorow on why technology should be used to create social mobility, not to spy on citizens. From Index on Censorship, is privacy more vital than national security? Jacob Silverman reviews They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy by Robert Scheer and Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier. Here is EFF's master plan for ending global mass surveillance. Did British spies use NSA data to spy on you? Find out. Bruce Schneier on four ways you can protect yourself from digital surveillance.
