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. [Note the first two items have already been listed on the main schedule page.}

1.  Privacy scholar Daniel Solove takes on the claim that people with “nothing to hide” need not worry about government surveillance and data-aggregation:
   "Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing To Hide'"
   
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 FCC official and ACLU lawyer Reed Hundt explains why and how he thinks privacy needs to be protected. There are also links to thoughtful replies from a number of other privacy and technology experts, including Richard Stallman:
   "Saving Privacy"
   
4. Former Justice Department official, Steven Bradbury defends NSA phone-call metadata collection:
   "NSA phone collection efforts shouldn't be constrained"
5. Security expert Bruce Schneier, argues back:
   Why the NSA's Defense of Mass Data Collection Makes No Sense
6. Privacy expert Daniel Solove rebuts some other pro-surveillance arguments: 
   "Why “security” keeps winning out over privacy"
7. June, 2018 Supreme Court Decision:
   "Supreme Court rules that warrant is needed to access cell tower records" [Notice that all of the coursts so-called conservatives, except Chief Justice Roberts, voted against this decision.]
8. A story published back in 2014 got quite a bit of attention.  It’s by Barton Gellman, the long-time national security reporter for the Washington Post who was coordinating the Post’s coverage of the Snowden leaks (and who is one of the journalists who Snowden originally leaked to).
   "In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are"
9. Some details on the NSA’s ‘infiltration’ of Google and Yahoo data-centers
   "NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say" 
10. 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
11. 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.
12. 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/ 

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/