Recent Surveillance news and discussion

Privacy expert Daniel Solove rebuts some pro-surveillance arguments:  http://www.salon.com/2011/05/31/solove_privacy_security/

Here Solove takes on the "nothing to hide" attitude often expressed in debates about government data-collection, and argues that we should not be focused on surveillance as much as on information processing.  https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

NSA chief defends eavesdropping on foreign leaders:  http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-considers-end-to-reported-spying-on-allied-leaders/1779164.html

And collecting Americans' meta-data:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/nsa-director-gives-firm-and-broad-defense-of-surveillance-efforts.html

A former Justice Department official defends NSA collection of telephone 'meta-data'.  http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-22/opinions/40726099_1_new-phone-numbers-data-court-approval

Security expert Bruce Schneier, argues back:  https://www.schneier.com/essay-461.html

The latest revelation about NSA data-collection:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_print.html

A more philosophical essay by Evgeny Morozov (author of "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom") -- difficult but very interesting:  http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520426/the-real-privacy-problem/

By the way, other leading Internet thinkers show up in the comments on this piece, including Richard Stallman and David Brin