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:
   https://teachprivacy.com/the-nothing-to-hide-argument-my-essays-10th-anniversary/
2. Solove answers some other pro-surveillance arguments:
   https://www.salon.com/2011/05/31/solove_privacy_security/
   
3. A much longer version of Solov's "Nothing To Hide" argument
   "Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing To Hide'"
   
4. Law professor William Simon asks us to rethink privacy, arguing that surveillance might be a good thing"
   https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/william-simon-rethinking-privacy-surveillance/
   
   Increased surveillance after 9/11 and the Snowden revalations:
   
   
5. 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"
   
6. Former Justice Department official, Steven Bradbury defends NSA phone-call metadata collection:
   "NSA phone collection efforts shouldn't be constrained"
7. Security expert Bruce Schneier, argues back:
   Why the NSA's Defense of Mass Data Collection Makes No Sense
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" 
   
   Most recent things:
   
   
10. A court case wherein Wikipedia is suing the National Security agency over its surveillance practices:
    https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/09/27/the-aclu-and-the-nsa-may-soon-square-off-in-the-supreme-court-over-wikipedia/
11. An argument that social media platforms should stop letting government agencies influence content moderation policies and decisions:
    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/online-platforms-should-stop-partnering-government-agencies-remove-content
12. Private companies sell surveillance data to government security agencies:
    https://techpolicy.press/in-europe-a-military-industrial-complex-is-turning-smartphones-into-a-political-surveillance-system/
13. A hearing on a bill in Congress to plug loopholes in surveillance limits (loopholes arising in part from private data-brokers selling to government agencies):
    https://techpolicy.press/bipartisan-support-for-fourth-amendment-is-not-for-sale-act-at-house-judiciary-hearing/
14. A deep dive into the ways the NYPD conducts electronic surveillance
    https://techpolicy.press/disclosures-of-nypd-surveillance-technologies-raise-more-questions-than-answers/