Helder Prior (Brasilia): Democracy is Watching You: From Panopticism to the Security State. Nora Ni Loideain (Cambridge): Judicial Review of Mass Metadata Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era. The United Nations has established a post for an investigator to scrutinize its member states’ use of Internet surveillance technology. Roberto Taufick (Stanford): The Pervasive State. Does Congress really listen to what the intelligence community says threatens America? Lawmakers and national security officials don't seem to be paying attention to each other anymore. Clifford Bob reviews National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon (and more). So, the NSA has an actual Skynet program. Want to see domestic spying’s future? Follow the drug war. The computers are listening: Dan Froomkin on how the NSA converts spoken words into searchable text, and on how speech recognition is NSA’s best-kept open secret. Lee Fang on how big business is helping expand NSA surveillance, Snowden be damned. Hannah K. Gold on how the NSA’s greatest hiring strength is students, but resistance is growing. Inside NSA, officials privately criticize “collect it all” surveillance. Chris Conley (ACLU): Metadata: Piecing Together a Privacy Solution. Edward Snowden didn’t expose the NSA’s bulk phone collection program — Leslie Cauley did. Jason Leopold goes inside Washington’s quest to bring down Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden on how the world says no to surveillance. John Cassidy on why it’s time to let Edward Snowden come home.
