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PRISM Podcast
In the first edition of the JURIST Podcast, the panel discuss the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden and security updates in the Texas Capitol. (More)
Edward Snowden, the Espionage Act and First Amendment Concerns
JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Wells of the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law says that the broad provisions of the Espionage Act raise significant First Amendment concerns, mainly that government officials can control all debates by (More)
US lawmaker calls for adversarial system in surveillance court
US Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Thursday introduced a bill to address popular concerns about personal privacy and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court . If the bill is passed, the court will be presided over by judges that are nomin (More)
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the NSA who leaked the NSA Power Point slides to the Washington Post and The Guardian, has been very open with the media regarding his background, education, work history and motives surrounding his leaking of (More)
PRISM
Since Edward Snowden leaked confidential documents to British newspaper The Guardian in June 2013, people have been asking questions relating to the US government's surveillance of a wide swath of the population. PRISM, authorized by the US Foreign I (More)
Rights groups challenge NSA surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against the National Security Agency (NSA) . The lawsuit seeks an injunction against the NSA, Justice Department (More)
Cyberspace, Espionage and the Fall of Treason
JURIST Guest Columnist Brice Biggins, George Mason University School of Law Class of 2014, discusses the rarity of treason charges in the US and argues that Edward Snowden should be charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917... (More)
Secret court allows Yahoo to disclose NSA data requests
The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on Monday granted a motion by Yahoo to declassify a 2008 FISC judgment that required the company to comply with government requests for user information under the Foreign Intelligence Surveilla (More)
Is Edward Snowden Guilty of US Espionage Charges?
JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of the Lewis & Clark Law School says that the key issue in assessing the espionage charge against Edward Snowden is whether his disclosure of the gathering of call data harmed the US or helped a foreign nation... (More)
Allow Google, Microsoft to disclose national security order data: rights groups
Civil liberties groups filed an amicus curiae brief Monday in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) supporting efforts by Google and Microsoft to publish data concerning how many times the government invoked federal law to request us (More)
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