26/Nov 2014
2 min. read
This is an announcement for a workshop that I am organizing in conjunction with the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS).
Due to the Snowden disclosures, mass surveillance has become one of the most highly-discussed and controversial issues in politics, policy, technology and international affairs. Modern surveillance, however, relies heavily on technology and, therefore, our community has a unique role to play in not only understanding surveillance but in mitigating it when excessive and restraining/limiting it when appropriate.
23/Jul 2013
10 min. read
Chris Soghoian points to an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal. It describes mounting pressure on the NSA to re-design its phone-data program---the program under which it compels telecommunications companies (telcos) like Verizon to turn over their phone record data.
In the article, Timothy Edgar, a former privacy lawyer who served in the Bush and Obama administrations is quoted as saying:
Privacy technology under development would allow for anonymous searches of databases, keeping data out of government hands but also preventing phone companies from learning the purpose of NSA searches.