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Unnecessary And Disproportionate: How The NSA Violates International Human Rights Standards

David Greene and Katitza Rodriguez | Electronic Frontier Foundation | May 28, 2014

Even before Ed Snowden leaked his first document, human rights lawyers and activists were concerned about law enforcement and intelligence agencies spying on the digital world. One of the tools developed to tackle those concerns was the development of the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance (the “Necessary and Proportionate Principles”)...

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What Transparency Reports Don't Tell Us

Ryan Budish | The Atlantic | December 19, 2013

These reports give us a lot of numbers, but very little information about how hard these companies fight on the behalf of users. Read More »

‘We Kill People Based On Metadata’

David Cole | NYR Blog | May 10, 2014

If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.”

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