State of the [Cyber] Union
On a bitter cold January day, the President of the United States appeared before a joint session of Congress to fulfill his Constitutional obligation to “from time to time give…
DetailsHow the NSA Revelations Can Be Good for US Cloud Providers
Conventional wisdom is that the revelations about the NSA domestic and international surveillance programs are bad news for US security, privacy, cloud and other companies. The revelations include assertions (probably…
DetailsNest, Google and the Third Party Doctrine
With Google’s acquisition of technology company Nest, not only has Big Data met the Internet of Things, we have allowed the camel’s nose into the tent of privacy. The Supreme…
DetailsGood Words, Small Change — Obama on NSA Surveillance
On January 17, 2014 President Obama came to the “Great Room” at the U.S. Department of Justice (for the first time) to announce his reforms to the NSA’s data collection…
DetailsSchrodinger’s Catnip Revisited – Part I – The Lawful NSA Metadata Program
In 1935, Austrian physicist Edwin Schrodinger posited a thought experiment illustrating the duality of quantum entanglement. In his thought experiment, illustrating nuclear decay, a cat placed in a box would be…
DetailsFurther Reflections on the NSA Bulk Data Collection
I have already written about how a federal judge in New York ruled that the NSA’s collection of the telephone toll records on every call made is constitutional because, the…
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