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Intelligence Community
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HL Chronicle of Data Protection
UK Parliamentary Report Calls for a New Legal Framework for UK Secret Intelligence Agencies
By HL Chronicle of Data Protection
The Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK Parliament today published its much anticipated report into the secret capabilities of the UK intelligence and security agencies, in particular their powers…
The Right Coast
Unclassified: The CIA s comic guide to national security jargon with monster illustrations – The Washington Post
The CIA has been hiding something from us: It once had a sense of humor not to mention Maurice Sendak-esque artistic skills, all before the unfunny news of the agency…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
False Equivalence Between Senate Oversight and CIA Spying
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolConor Friedersdorf writes over at The Atlantic that media coverage of the dispute between Senator Dianne Feinstein and the CIA over the Agency's spying…
The Right Coast
China Fields New Intermediate-Range Nuclear Missile | Washington Free Beacon
U.S. intelligence agencies recently confirmed China s development of a new intermediate-range nuclear missile (IRBM) called the Dongfeng-26C (DF-26C), U.S. officials said.via freebeacon.comYikes.
Datenschutz
Peter Schaar berichtet dem Bundestag zu Datenschutz und Geheimdiensten
Zur Beratung des Bundestags am 18.11.2013 legte Peter Schaar, der Bundesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, seinen Bericht über "Abhöraktivitäten US-amerikanischer Nachrichtendienste in Deutschland" vor. In diesem analysiert und bewertet er…
Inside Political Law
Lobbying Disclosure and the Intelligence Community
With the National Security Agency in the news, there has been some media attention to who is lobbying whom in the intelligence community, and how much they are spending while…
Cyberblog
Finding Cyberspies
For a while now I believe that attribution of hacker attacks has been rapidly improving. Well now we have confirmation from a Ken Dilanian scoop in the LA Times. Dilanian reports that “the U.S. intelligence…
Cyberblog
More Trouble for ZTE
ZTE, the huge Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer, has found themselves in a kind of perfect storm. A storm largely of their own making. First, ZTE and its larger Chinese rival, Huawei, have…
Cruise Law News
Spy Cruise?
By Jim Walker
Just when you think you have seen everything, I ran across an advertisement for a "Spy Cruise." "SpyCruise®" advertises itself as "a private group aboard a cruise ship where members attend exclusive…
The Right Coast
More intel embarassment coming? Tom Smith
The system is working. (via here.)