Recent Surveillance news and discussion

There are links here to far more surveillance-related news and discussion than you could possibly find time to read.  The stuff I think is most useful/important is at the top of the list.

1.  Privacy scholar Daniel Solove takes on the claim that people with “nothing to hide” need not worry about government surveillance and data-aggregation:
   http://www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/CHRON_HE/C110515S.pdf
2. Law professor William Simon asks us to rethink privacy, arguing that surveillance might be a good thing"
   http://www.bostonreview.net/books-ideas/william-simon-rethinking-privacy-surveillance?
   
3. Former Justice Department official, Seven Bradbury defends NSA phone-call metadata collection:
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nsa-phone-collection-efforts-shouldnt-be-constrained/2013/07/22/a8e98b7a-f2e0-11e2-bdae-0d1f78989e8a_story.html
4. Security expert Bruce Schneier, argues back:
   https://www.schneier.com/essay-461.html
5. As the data leaked by NSA contactor Edward Snowden continue to be analyzed and selectively published (by the journalists he leaked them to), we have learned that the NSA is collecting and storing far more than telephone-call metadata.  Here is a link to a cumulative record of the articles and documents coming out of the Snowden leak.  They are listed in reverse chronological order (with the most recent articles listed first:  https://edwardsnowden.com/ru/revelations/   You might like to just skim through the list to get a sense of what has been disclosed.
6. A story published last week got quite a bit of attention.  It’s by Barton Gellman, the long-time national security reporter for the Washington Post who is coordinating the Post’s coverage of the Snowden leaks (and who is one of the journalists who Snowden originally leaked to).
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop
7. Some details on the NSA’s ‘infiltration’ of Google and Yahoo data-centers
   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 
8. Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who has worked most closely with Snowden, has a book out on the affair, called No Place To Hide.
   1. New York Times review here:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/books/no-place-to-hide-by-glenn-greenwald.html
   2. Excerpt from the book: http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPlaceToHide-Excerpt.pdf
9. A more philosophical essay by Evgeny Morozov (author of "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom") -- difficult but very interesting  (By the way, other leading Internet thinkers show up in the comments on this piece, including Richard Stallman and David Brin.):
   http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520426/the-real-privacy-problem/ 
10. Privacy expert Daniel Solove rebuts some other pro-surveillance arguments: 
    http://www.salon.com/2011/05/31/solove_privacy_security/

And here’s the article about the woman who tried to keep her pregnancy from coming out on the Internet:
http://time.com/83200/privacy-internet-big-data-opt-out/