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Life is an Open … Cloud: On privacy, surveillance, and Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record

Published on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019

Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden, was published on Constitution Day (September 17) by Metropolitan Books; image courtesy Macmillan Publishers.

Privacy Battle: Today, your phone. Tomorrow, your brain.

Published on February 25, 2016January 2, 2020

Editorial

The neural-computer interface already exists. Privacy law is not only not keeping ahead of the science, it's not even part of the public discussion. Photo courtesy DARPA

Like so many privacy advocates, I cheered as Apple, Inc. unzipped and laid its set of big brass corporate disobedience on the table last week. Despite some convincing analysis both on Medium and over at Slate.com to the effect that an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, a shooter in the 2015 San Bernardino massacre,