Items tagged ‘security’
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Should We Assume We’ve Been Hacked?
What individuals and businesses can learn from recent cybersecurity breaches
The State Department confirmed a security breach of its unclassified email system on Monday – the fourth infiltration of a federal government agenc... -
Surveillance Costs: The NSA's Impact on the Economy, Internet Freedom & Cybersecurity
It has been over a year since The Guardian reported the first story on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs based on the leaks from... -
OTI Analysis of Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S. 2588)
The following is the introduction to the Open Technology Institute's analysis of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA, S. 2588),... -
National Insecurity Agency: How the NSA Undermines Internet Security
On the heels of the latest NSA disclosures from The Washington Post, the Open Technology Institute hosted an event on Monday about how the agency’s... -
Info Sharing with NSA is a Non-Starter – and Only One of the New Cybersecurity Bill’s Many Problems
The last time the Senate considered cybersecurity information-sharing legislation was in July 2012, when it took up the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (... -
The Lesson of the Surge
Defeating ISIS Requires a New Sunni Awakening
Derek Harvey Michael PregentAs the United States considers its options against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), we should start by reviewing our earlier war against... -
This Week: "Transparency Reporting for Beginners" in San Francisco and Austin
This afternoon in San Francisco at the Internet and human rights conference Rightscon, OTI's policy director Kevin Bankston will be appearing on th... -
Civil Rights in the Age of Big Data
Digital information about who we are and what we do is the currency of our digital economy and the substrate of our digital society. As the flow of... -
Pervasive surveillance, individual freedoms, and collective justice
The problem of pervasive surveillance technologies drums up passionate defenses of individual freedom and civil liberties, but what about collectiv... -
Data Profiling and Social Justice -- Remarks prepared for Eyebeam's “PRISM Breakup”
Presentation by Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Senior Research Fellow at Open Technology Institute, at PRISM Breakup in New York City, Saturday, October 5...