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Hicksville, N.Y.: A Long Island Rail Road employee disinfects a train car with an eco-friendly cleaner while at the Hicksville, New York LIRR station on March 19, 2020.

Can High-Tech “Sensor Fusion” Revolutionize Biosurveillance?

DEEP DIVE – It’s the opening act in a potential public health nightmare: a chicken dies on a farm, for no apparent reason; another perishes at a farm [...] More

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Former Spies on Nunes Memo: Underwhelmed, Unconvinced

Former Spies on Nunes Memo: Underwhelmed, Unconvinced

Cipher Brief experts were underwhelmed by the “Nunes Memo,” made public Friday, despite the objections of Democrats, leaders in the intelligence [...] More

Eatinger: Under the Hood of Renewed FISA Law

Robert Eatinger, former senior deputy general counsel at the CIA, says the legislation that Congress just passed extending controversial surveillance [...] More

Don't Pass Surveillance Legislation in the Dark

Politicians who support broad, unchecked government surveillance authorities are once again rushing to approve a sweeping program at the expense of [...] More

FISA Surveillance: What it Is, and What it Isn't

The Senate Intelligence Committee approved legislation last week to renew the National Security Agency’s internet surveillance program, currently [...] More

NSA Curtails Collection Under FISA Provision

NSA Curtails Collection Under FISA Provision

Ever wonder whether the National Security Agency picked up your text message or email because you mentioned ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi to a [...] More

Stopping the NSA’s “About” Collection Is Not Sufficient

The NSA recently said it would stop collecting signals intelligence solely “about” foreign targets by tapping the backbone of the internet resident [...] More

The NSA’s Smart Play to Install a Greater Margin of Safety

The National Security Agency recently announced changes to its intelligence collection practices under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence [...] More

“Unmasking” U.S. Citizens Found in NSA Intercepts

“Unmasking” U.S. Citizens Found in NSA Intercepts

The process of “unmasking,” or revealing the true identities of U.S. persons who unexpectedly figure into conversations picked up by National [...] More