This is the best of times and the worst of times for privacy and civil liberties. Almost every day, new revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency's surveillance activities make headlines. Meanwhile, some U.S. intelligence chiefs have called for the execution of whistleblower Edward Snowden and have painted journalists who run stories based on his material as his accomplices. The Obama administration has announced some changes to the way the NSA collects telephone metadata, but it is allowing the agency to continue collecting it.CDT's New Global Civil Liberty Aspirations
This is the best of times and the worst of times for privacy and civil liberties. Almost every day, new revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency's surveillance activities make headlines. Meanwhile, some U.S. intelligence chiefs have called for the execution of whistleblower Edward Snowden and have painted journalists who run stories based on his material as his accomplices. The Obama administration has announced some changes to the way the NSA collects telephone metadata, but it is allowing the agency to continue collecting it.
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