Jakob Jan Kamminga (Utrecht): The Moral Content of the Concept of Privacy. Andrew J Roberts (Melbourne): Privacy and Political Theory. Jordan J. Paust (Houston): Can You Hear Me Now? Private Communication, National Security, and the Human Rights Disconnect. From Wired, a cover story on Edward Snowden, the most wanted man in the world. James Der Derian reviews books about Edward Snowden and his audacious revelations about US surveillance excesses and their implications for all private citizens. Edward Snowden urges professionals to encrypt client communications. NSA workers routinely share your nude photos, Snowden says. Conor Friedersdorf on Edward Snowden or the NSA: Who violated your privacy more? Sue Halpern on NSA surveillance: what the government can’t see. From ProPublica, Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson on the NSA revelations all in one chart. Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman on how NPR is laundering CIA talking points to make you scared of NSA reporting. Visit the wrong website, and the FBI could end up in your computer. Andy Greenberg on Morgan Marquis-Boire, the ex-Google hacker taking on the world’s spy agencies. Whistleblowers and traitors: Gabriel Schoenfeld reviews Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy by Rahul Sagar. Big Data hopes to liberate us from the work of self-construction — and justify mass surveillance in the process. Slavoj Zizek on how WikiLeaks opened our eyes to the illusion of freedom. From Ctheory, Michael Betancourt on the demands of agnotology-surveillance dynamic. Perri Klass on how Harriet the Spy predicted our surveillance state. Security in numbers: We need everyone to be worried about this stuff, and not just because it will help us get governments to put a leash on the spies — more important is the fact that security isn’t an individual matter.
