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Watching the Watchers
15 maart 2022 · 32 min
Imagine being detained by armed agents whenever you returned from traveling outside the country. That’s what life became like for Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, who was placed on a terrorist watch-list after she made a documentary critical of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Poitras was detained close to 100 times between 2006 and 2012, and border agents routinely copied her notebooks and threatened to take her electronics. Lees meer
It was only after Poitras teamed up with EFF to sue the government that she was able to see evidence of the government’s six-year campaign of spying on her. This week on our podcast, Poitras joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien to talk about her continuing work to uncover spying on journalists, and what we can do to fight back against mass surveillance.
In this episode you’ll learn about:
What life was like for Poitras when she was placed on a terror watch list and put under FBI surveillance
Why security is a “team sport,” and what we can all do to protect ourselves as well as more vulnerable people
Poitras’ new work about the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company that has been accused of facilitating human rights abuses worldwide
What legal strategies can be used to push back on mass surveillance
The role of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and human rights activists in uncovering spying abuses, and how they can be better protected
The laws that we need to protect professional journalists and citizen journalists in an age where anyone can record the news
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod201 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
This podcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
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Reimagining the Internet
8 maart 2022 · 32 min
Our guest from Season 2, Ethan Zuckerman, has his own podcast: Reimagining the Internet. He had EFF's Jillian York as a guest on his show, and we thought you'd like to have a listen to it.
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Saving Podcasts From A Patent Troll
1 februari 2022 · 41 min
Marc Maron is the host of a successful podcast, and when he and some other pioneers started out he didn’t have to think much about the layers of technology he was using, until a patent troll came to call, asking for thousands of dollars to pay for the “rights” to podcasting because of a patent they were mis-using to get money from the nascent podcast world. Marc and his producer Brendan knew that if they didn’t take up the fight to stop the trolls, then all of podcasting would be under threat, so they joined up with some EFF lawyers and a whole lot of listeners to win their fight. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn about:
The prior art, or evidence of earlier technology that EFF was able to present to courts to prove that the so-called “podcasting patent” was invalid.
How the landmark Alice v. CLS Bank Supreme Court decision has helped make patent law better, but still didn’t solve the problem of patent trolls
Why patent trolls are a drain on innovation
How we should think about which ideas should be building blocks for the public good, and which should be owned
Why the community that came together around the podcasting patent fight was critical to EFF’s victory
How EFF prevailed when the patent troll tried to get the names of EFF donors.
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod110 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
This podcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
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Data Doppelgängers
25 januari 2022 · 37 min
What if we re-imagined the internet to be built by more people, in new ways, that actually worked for us as a public good instead of a public harm? Join Ethan Zuckerman in conversation with Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they fix and reimagine the internet. They’ll talk about what the internet could look like if a diversity of people built their own tools, how advertising could be less creepy, but still work, and how hope in the future will light the way to a better internet. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn about:
The challenges researchers face when gathering information and data about our relationship with social media platforms.
Different ways to communicate with groups online and how these alternatives would improve online speech.
Ways that third parties have tried to give more user control in social media platforms.
How censorship, and who we worry about censoring speech, has changed as the internet has evolved.
The problems with surveillance advertising and alternative ideas for advertisements on the internet.
How the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act blocks research and innovation, and how we can fix it.
How communication on the internet has changed over time, why social media giants aren’t getting it right, and how to move forward.
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod109 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
This podcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
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How Private is Your Bank Account?
18 januari 2022 · 27 min
Financial transactions reveal so much about us: the causes we support, where we go, what we buy, who we spend time with. Somehow, the mass surveillance of financial transactions has been normalized in the United States, despite the fourth amendment protection in the constitution. But it doesn’t have to be that way, as explained by Marta Belcher, a lawyer and activist in the financial privacy world. Lees meer
Marta offers a deep dive into financial surveillance and censorship. In this episode, you’ll learn about:
The concept of the third party doctrine, a court-created idea that law enforcement doesn’t need to get a warrant to access metadata shared with third parties (such as companies that manage communications and banking services);
How financial surveillance can have a chilling effect on activist communities, including pro-democracy activists fighting against authoritarian regimes in Hong Kong and elsewhere;
How the Bank Secrecy Act means that your bank services are sharing sensitive banking details on customers with the government by default, without any request from law enforcement to prompt it;
Why the Bank Secrecy Act as it’s currently interpreted violates the Fourth Amendment;
The potential role of blockchain technologies to import some of the privacy-protective features of cash into the digital world;
How one recent case missed an opportunity to better protect the data of cryptocurrency users;
How financial surveillance is a precursor to financial censorship, in which banking services are restricted for people who haven’t violated the law.
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod108 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
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Algorithms for a Just Future
11 januari 2022 · 33 min
One of the supposed promises of AI was that it would be able to take the bias out of human decisions, and maybe even lead to more equity in society. But the reality is that the errors of the past are embedded in the data of today, keeping prejudice and discrimination in. Pair that with surveillance capitalism, and what you get are algorithms that impact the way consumers are treated, from how much they pay for things, to what kinds of ads they are shown, to if a bank will even lend them money. But it doesn’t have to be that way, because the same techniques that prey on people can lift them up. Vinhcent Le from the Greenlining Institute joins Cindy and Danny to talk about how AI can be used to make things easier for people who need a break. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn about:
Redlining—the pernicious system that denies historically marginalized people access to loans and financial services—and how modern civil rights laws have attempted to ban this practice.
How the vast amount of our data collected through modern technology, especially browsing the Web, is often used to target consumers for products, and in effect recreates the illegal practice of redlining.
The weaknesses of the consent-based models for safeguarding consumer privacy, which often mean that people are unknowingly waving away their privacy whenever they agree to a website’s terms of service.
How the United States currently has an insufficient patchwork of state laws that guard different types of data, and how a federal privacy law is needed to set a floor for basic privacy protections.
How we might reimagine machine learning as a tool that actively helps us root out and combat bias in consumer-facing financial services and pricing, rather than exacerbating those problems.
The importance of transparency in the algorithms that make decisions about our lives.
How we might create technology to help consumers better understand the government services available to them.
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The Life of the (Crypto) Party
21 december 2021 · 31 min
Matt Mitchell started Crypto Harlem to teach people in his community about how online and real life surveillance works, and what they could do about it. Through empowering people to understand their online privacy choices, and to speak up for change when their privacy in real life is eroded, Matt is building a movement to make a better future for everyone. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn about:
Cryptoparties being organized by volunteers to educate people about what surveillance technology looks like, how it works, and who installed it
How working within your own community can be an extremely effective (and fun) way to push back against surveillance
How historically surveilled communities have borne the brunt of new, digital forms of surveillance
The ineffectiveness and bias of much new surveillance technology, and why it’s so hard to “surveill yourself to safety”
Why and how heavily surveilled communities are taking back their privacy, sometimes using new technology
The ways that Community Control Of Police Surveillance (CCOPS) legislation can benefit communities by offering avenues to learn about and discuss surveillance technology before it’s installed
How security and digital privacy has improved, with new options, settings, and applications that offer more control over our online lives
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod106 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
This podcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
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A Better Future With Secret Codes
14 december 2021 · 31 min
We don’t always think about what it means to have the information on our devices stay secure, and it may seem like the locks on our phones are enough to keep our private lives private. But there is increasing pressure from law enforcement to leave a back door open on our encrypted devices. Meanwhile, other government agencies, including consumer protection agencies, want more secure devices. We dive into the nuances of the battle to secure our data and our lives, and consider what the future would be like if we can finally end the “crypto wars” and tackle other problems in society. On this episode, hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien are joined by Riana Pfeffercorn from Stanford’s Centre for Internet and Society to talk about device encryption and why it’s important. Lees meer
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod105 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
In this episode you’ll learn about:
Different types of data law enforcement try to gather information from, including “at rest” and “in transit” data.
The divide between law enforcement, national security and intelligence communities regarding their stance on strong encryption and backdoors on devices.
How the First Amendment plays a role in cryptography and the ability for law enforcement to try to force companies to build certain code into their software.
How strong encryption and device security empowers users to voice their thoughts freely.
Riana Pfefferkorn is a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She focuses on investigating and analyzing the U.S. and other governments’ policies and practices for forcing decryption and/or influencing crypto-related design of online platforms and services via technical means and through courts and legislatures. Riana also researches the benefits and detriments of strong encr…
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Pay a Hacker, Save a Life
7 december 2021 · 29 min
There are flaws in the tech we use everyday- from little software glitches to big data breaches, and security researchers often know about them before we do. Getting those issues fixed is not always as straightforward as it should be. It’s not always easy to bend a corporation's ear, and companies may ignore the threat for liability reasons putting us all at risk. Technology and cybersecurity expert Tarah Wheeler joins Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien to explain how she thinks security experts can help build a more secure internet. Lees meer
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod104 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
On this episode, you’ll learn:
About the human impact of security vulnerabilities—and how unpatched flaws can change or even end lives;
How to reconsider the popular conception of hackers, and understand their role in helping build a more secure digital world;
How the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a law that is supposed to punish computer intrusion, has been written so broadly that it now stifles security researchers;
What we can learn from the culture around airplane safety regulation—including transparency and blameless post-mortems;
How we can align incentives, including financial incentives, to improve vulnerability reporting and response;
How the Supreme Court case Van Buren helped security researchers by ensuring that the CFAA couldn’t be used to prosecute someone for merely violating the terms of service of a website or application;
How a better future would involve more collaboration and transparency among both companies and security researchers.
This podcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
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Who Controls Online Speech?
30 november 2021 · 36 min
The bots that try to moderate speech online are doing a terrible job, and the humans in charge of the biggest tech companies aren’t doing any better. The internet’s promise was as a space where everyone could have their say. But today, just a few platforms get to decide what billions of people see and say online. Lees meer
What’s a better way forward? How can we get back to a world where communities and people decide what’s best for content moderation, rather than tech billionaires or government dictates?
Join Daphne Keller, from Stanford’s Centre for the Internet and Society, in conversation with EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien about a better way to moderate speech online.
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod103 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
In this episode you’ll learn about:
— Why giant platforms do a poor job of moderating content
—What competitive compatibility (ComCom) is, and how it’s a vital part of the solution to our content moderation puzzle
— Why machine learning algorithms won’t be able to figure out who or what a “terrorist” is, and who it’s likely to catch instead
— What is the debate over “amplification” of speech, and is it any different than our debate over speech itself?
—Why international voices need to be included in discussion about content moderation—and the problems that occur when they’re not
—How we could shift towards “bottom-up” content moderation rather than a concentration of power
This podcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
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The Revolution Will Be Open Source
23 november 2021 · 32 min
Open source software touches every piece of technology that touches our lives- in other words, it’s everywhere. Free software and collaboration is at the heart of every device we rely on, and much of the internet is built from the hard work of people dedicated to the open source dream: ideals that all software should be licenced to be free, modified, distributed and copied without penalty. The movement is growing, and that growth is creating pressure: from too many projects, and not enough resources. The culture is shifting, too, as new people around the world join in and bring different ideas and different dreams for an open source future. James Vasile has been working in open source software for decades, and he joins Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien to talk about the challenges that growth is creating, and the opportunities it presents to make open source, and the Internet, even better. Lees meer
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod102 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
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What Police Get When They Get Your Phone
16 november 2021 · 31 min
Your phone is a window to your soul - and that window has been left open to law enforcement. Today, even small-town police departments have powerful tools that can easily access the most intimate information on your cell phone. Upturn’s Executive Director Harlan Yu joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien to talk about a better way for law enforcement to treat our data. Lees meer
When Upturn researchers surveyed police departments on the mobile device forensic tools they were using on mobile phones, they discovered that the tools are being used by police departments large and small across America. There are few rules on what law enforcement can do with the data they download, and not very many policies on how the information should be stored, shared, or destroyed.
In this episode you’ll learn about:
Mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs) that are used by police to download data from your phone, even when it’s locked
How court cases such as Riley v. California powerfully protect our digital privacy-- but those protections are evaded when police get verbal consent to search a phone
How widespread the use of MDFTs are by law enforcement departments across the country, including small-town police departments investigating minor infractions
The roles that phone manufacturers and mobile device forensic tool vendors can play in protecting user data
How re-envisioning our approaches to phone surveillance helps address issues of systemic targeting of marginalized communities by police agencies
The role of warrants in protecting our digital data.
If you have any feedback on this episode, please email podcast@eff.org. Please visit the site page at https://eff.org/pod101 where you’ll find resources – including links to important legal cases and research discussed in the podcast and a full transcript of the audio.
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Introducing, How to Fix the Internet
9 november 2021 · 2 min
How to Fix the Internet from the Electronic Frontier Foundation brings you ideas, solutions, and pathways to a better digital future for all.
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Pilot Part 6: You Bought It, But Do You Own It?
8 december 2020 · 51 min
Chris Lewis joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how our access to knowledge is increasingly governed by "click-wrap" agreements that prevent users from ever owning things like books and music, and how this undermines the legal doctrine of “first sale” – which states that once you buy a copyrighted work, it’s yours to resell or give it away as you choose. They talk through the ramifications of this shift on society, and also start to paint a brighter future for how the digital world would thrive if we safeguard digital first sale. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn about:
The legal doctrine of first sale—in which owners of a copyrighted work can resell it or give it away as they choose—and why copyright maximalists have fought it for so long;
The Redigi case, in which a federal court held that the Redigi music service, which allows music fans to store and resell music they buy from iTunes, violated copyright law—and why that set us down the wrong path;
The need for a movement that can help champion digital first sale and access to knowledge more generally;
How digital first sale connects to issues of access to knowledge, and how this provides a nexus to issues of societal equity;
Why the shift to using terms of service to govern access to content such as music and books has meant that our access to knowledge is intermediated by contract law, which is often impenetrable to average users;
How not having a strong right of digital first sale undermines libraries, which have long benefited from bequests and donations;
How getting first sale right in the digital world will help to promote equitable access to knowledge and create a more accessible digital world.
Christopher Lewis is President and CEO at Public Knowledge. Prior to being elevated to President and CEO, Chris served for as PK's Vice President from 2012 to 2019 where he led the organization's day-to-day advocacy and political strategy on Capitol Hill and at government agencies. Durin…
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Pilot Part 5: From Your Face to Their Database
1 december 2020 · 55 min
Abi Hassen joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss the rise of facial recognition technology, how this increasingly powerful identification tool is ending up in the hands of law enforcement, and what that means for the future of public protest and the right to assemble and associate in public places. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn about:
The Black Movement Law Project, which Abi co-founded, and how it has evolved over time to meet the needs of protesters;
Why the presumption that people don’t have any right to privacy in public spaces is challenged by increasingly powerful identification technologies;
Why we may need to think big when it comes to updating the U.S. law to protect privacy;
How face recognition technology can have a chilling effect on public participation, even when the technology isn’t accurate;
How face recognition technology is already leading to the wrongful arrest of innocent people, as seen in a recent case of a man in Detroit;
How gang laws and anti-terrorism laws have been the foundation of a legal tools that can now be deployed against political activists;
Understanding face recognition technology within the context of a range of powerful surveillance tools in the hands of law enforcement;
How we can start to fix the problems caused by facial recognition through increased transparency, community control, and hard limits on law enforcement use of face recognition technology,
How Abi sees the further goal is to move beyond restricting or regulating specific technologies to a world where public protests are not so necessary, as part of reimagining the role of law enforcement.
Abi is a political philosophy student, attorney, technologist, co-founder of the Black Movement-Law Project, a legal support rapid response group that grew out of the uprisings in Ferguson, Baltimore, and elsewhere. He is also a partner (currently on leave) at O’Neill and Hassen LLP, a law practice focused on indigent criminal defense. Prior to…
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Pilot Part 4: Control Over Users, Competitors, and Critics
24 november 2020 · 48 min
Cory Doctorow joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how large, established tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook can block interoperability in order to squelch competition and control their users, and how we can fix this by taking away big companies' legal right to block new tools that connect to their platforms – tools that would let users control their digital lives. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn about:
How the power to leave a platform is one of the most fundamental checks users have on abusive practices by tech companies—and how tech companies have made it harder for their users to leave their services while still participating in our increasingly digital society;
How the lack of interoperability in modern tech platforms is often a set of technical choices that are backed by a legal infrastructure for enforcement, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). This means that attempting to overcome interoperability barriers can come with legal risks as well as financial risks, making it especially unlikely for new entrants to attempt interoperating with existing technology;
How online platforms block interoperability in order to silence their critics, which can have real free speech implications;
The “kill zone” that exists around existing tech products, where investors will not back tech startups challenging existing tech monopolies, and even startups that can get a foothold may find themselves bought out by companies like Facebook and Google;
How we can fix it: The role of “competitive compatibility,” also known as “adversarial interoperability” in reviving stagnant tech marketplaces;
How we can fix it by amending or interpreting the DMCA, CFAA and contract law to support interoperability rather than threaten it.
How we can fix it by supporting the role of free and open source communities as champions of interoperability and offering alternatives to existing technical …
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Pilot Part 3: Closing a Loophole in the 4th Amendment
17 november 2020 · 34 min
Jumana Musa joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how the third-party doctrine is undermining our Fourth Amendment right to privacy when we use digital services, and how recent court victories are a hopeful sign that we may reclaim these privacy rights in the future. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn about:
How the third-party doctrine is a judge-created legal doctrine that impacts your business records held by companies, including metadata such as what websites you visit, who you talk to, your location information, and much more;
The Jones case, a vital Supreme Court case that found that law enforcement can’t use continuous location tracking with a GPS device without a warrant;
The Carpenter case, which found that the police must get a warrant before accessing cell site location information from a cell phone company over time;
How law enforcement uses geofence warrants to scoop up the location data collected by companies from every device that happens to be in a geographic area during a specific period of time in the past;
How getting the Fourth Amendment right is especially important because it is part of combatting racism: communities of color are more frequently surveilled and targeted by law enforcement, and thus slipshod legal standards for accessing data has a disproportionate impact on communities of color;
Why even a warrant may not be an adequate legal standard sometimes, and that there are circumstances in which accessing business records should require a “super warrant” – meaning law enforcement could only access the data for investigating a limited number of crimes, and only if the data would be important for the crime.
Jumana Musa is a human rights attorney and racial justice activist. She is currently the Director of the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. As director, Ms. Musa oversees NACDL's initiative to build a new, more durable Fourth Amendment legal doctrine for the digital…
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Pilot Part 2: Why Does My Internet Suck
6 november 2020 · 40 min
Gigi Sohn joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss broadband access in the United States – or the lack thereof. Gigi explains the choices American policymakers and tech companies made to create a country where there are millions of Americans who lack access to reliable broadband, and what steps we need to take to fix the problem now. Lees meer
In this episode you’ll learn:
How does the FCC define broadband Internet and why that definition makes no sense in 2020;
How many other countries adopted policies that either incentivized competition among Internet providers or invested in government infrastructure for Internet services, while the United States did neither, leading to a much of the country having only one or two Internet service providers, high costs, and poor quality Internet service;
Why companies like AT&T and Verizon aren’t investing in fiber;
How the FCC uses a law about telephone regulation to assert authority over regulating broadband access, and how the 1996 Telecommunication Act granted the FCC permission to forbear – or not apply – certain parts of that law;
How 19 states in the U.S. have bans or limitations on municipal broadband, and why repealing those bans is key to increasing broadband access
How Internet access is connected to issues of equity, upward mobility, and job accessibility, as well as related issues of racial justice, citizen journalism and police accountability;
Specific suggestions and reforms, including emergency subsidies and a major investment in infrastructure, that could help turn this situation around.
Gigi is a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton Senior Fellow and Public Advocate. She is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks. From 2013-2016, Gigi was Counselor to the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler. She advised the Chairman on a wide range of Int…
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Pilot Part 1: The Secret Court Approving Secret Surveillance
6 november 2020 · 1 uur 7 min
In the inaugural episode of EFF's "How to Fix the Internet" podcast, the Cato Institute’s specialist in surveillance legal policy, Julian Sanchez, joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they delve into the problems with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, also known as the FISC or the FISA Court. Sanchez explains how the FISA Court signs off on surveillance of huge swaths of our digital lives, and how the format and structure of the FISA Court is inherently flawed. Lees meer
In this episode, you’ll learn about:
How the FISA Court impacts your digital privacy
The makeup of the FISA Court and how judges are chosen
How almost all of the key decisions about the legality of America's mass Internet spying projects have been made by the FISC
How the current system promotes ideological hegemony within the FISA court
How the FISC’s endless-secrecy-by-default system insulates it from the ecosystem of jurisprudence that could act as a guardrail against poor decisions as well as accountability for them
How the FISC’s remit has ballooned from approving individual surveillance orders to signing off on broad programmatic types of surveillance
Why we need a stronger amicus role in the FISC, and especially a bigger role for technical experts to advise the court
Specific reforms that could be enacted to address these systemic issues and ensure a more fair review of surveillance systems
Julian is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and studies issues at the intersection of technology, privacy, and civil liberties, with a particular focus on national security and intelligence surveillance. Before joining Cato, Julian served as the Washington editor for the technology news site Ars Technica, where he covered surveillance, intellectual property, and telecom policy. He has also worked as a writer for The Economist’s blog Democracy in America and as an editor for Reason magazine, where he remains a contributing editor. Sanchez has written on privacy and technology for …