25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough

This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare . One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to mass surveillance techniques—such as tapping into the internet backbone or mass collection of telephone or internet metadata. The…

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