Bulk Collection Of Signals Intelligence

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Responding to Section 5(d) of Presidential Policy Directive 28: The Feasibility of Software to Provide Alternatives to Bulk Signals Intelligence Collection
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309325233

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Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Responding to Section 5(d) of Presidential Policy Directive 28: The Feasibility of Software to Provide Alternatives to Bulk Signals Intelligence Collection Pdf

The Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options study is a result of an activity called for in Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28), issued by President Obama in January 2014, to evaluate U.S. signals intelligence practices. The directive instructed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to produce a report within one year "assessing the feasibility of creating software that would allow the intelligence community more easily to conduct targeted information acquisition rather than bulk collection." ODNI asked the National Research Council (NRC) -- the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering -- to conduct a study, which began in June 2014, to assist in preparing a response to the President. Over the ensuing months, a committee of experts appointed by the Research Council produced the report.

Author : Fred H. Cate,James X. Dempsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190685522

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Bulk Collection by Fred H. Cate,James X. Dempsey Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book is the culmination of nearly six years of research initiated by Fred Cate and Jim Dempsey to examine national practices and laws regarding systematic government access to personal information held by private-sector companies. Leading an effort sponsored by The Privacy Projects, they commissioned a series of country reports, asking national experts to uncover what they could about government demands on telecommunications providers and other private-sector companies to disclose bulk information about their customers. Their initial research found disturbing indications of systematic access in countries around the world. These data collection programs, often undertaken in the name of national security, were cloaked in secrecy and largely immune from oversight, posing serious threats to personal privacy. After the Snowden leaks confirmed these initial findings, the project morphed into something more ambitious: an effort to explore what should be the rules for government access to private-sector data, and how companies should respond to government demands for access. This book contains twelve updated country reports plus eleven analytic chapters that present descriptive and normative frameworks for assessing national surveillance laws, survey evolving international law and human rights principles applicable to government surveillance, and describe oversight mechanisms. It also explores the concept of accountability and the role of encryption in shaping the surveillance debate. Cate and Dempsey conclude by offering recommendations for both governments and industry.

Author : Peter Gill,Mark Phythian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509525232

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Intelligence in An Insecure World by Peter Gill,Mark Phythian Pdf

Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable intelligence in order to increase their sense of security. But what exactly is intelligence? Who seeks to develop it and to what ends? How can we ensure that intelligence is not abused? In this third edition of their classic text, Peter Gill and Mark Phythian set out a comprehensive framework for the study of intelligence, discussing how states organize the collection and analysis of information in order to produce intelligence, how it is acted upon, why it may fail and how the process should be governed in order to uphold democratic rights. Fully revised and updated throughout, the book covers recent developments, including the impact of the Snowden leaks on the role of intelligence agencies in Internet and social media surveillance and in defensive and offensive cyber operations, and the legal and political arrangements for democratic control. The role of intelligence as part of ‘hybrid’ warfare in the case of Russia and Ukraine is also explored, and the problems facing intelligence in the realm of counterterrorism is considered in the context of the recent wave of attacks in Western Europe. Intelligence in an Insecure World is an authoritative and accessible guide to a rapidly expanding area of inquiry – one that everyone has an interest in understanding.

Author : Paul Lambert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781526524829

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Data Protection and Data Transfers Law by Paul Lambert Pdf

This title brings together the different aspects of the transfer landscape and outlines the separate rules, all in one accessible place. Data transfers (under data protection rules) are one of the most discussed areas of data protection, and are currently undergoing significant change. Data transfers are relied on as an essential function of national and international trade, business, and internet use. It is essential for practitioners to keep abreast of the new data transfer rules and changes for their clients. Following on from Brexit, professionals now have more than one set of transfer rules to comply with, including: - The different data transfer channels - New Adequacy Decision - New Standard Contract rules - New UK Contract rules - Consultation process on future laws - New proposed UK data laws - Data law and data transfer changes - Practical and commercial considerations There are more UK data transfer channels and rules to consider now than at any time previously. The UK data transfer regime is now more complex than the EU data transfer regime, necessitating significant extra diligence by commercial entities. This book is designed to assist UK and international law professionals, in-house data protection professionals and a wide range of other interested readers on the increasingly complex area of data rules. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Intellectual Property and IT online service.

Author : David Aspinall,Jan Camenisch,Marit Hansen,Simone Fischer-Hübner,Charles Raab
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319417639

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Privacy and Identity Management. Time for a Revolution? by David Aspinall,Jan Camenisch,Marit Hansen,Simone Fischer-Hübner,Charles Raab Pdf

This book contains a range of keynote papers and submitted papers presented at the 10th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6/SIG 9.2.2 International Summer School, held in Edinburgh, UK, in August 2015. The 14 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from a total of 43 submissions and were subject to a two-step review process. In addition, the volume contains 4 invited keynote papers. The papers cover a wide range of topics: cloud computing, privacy-enhancing technologies, accountability, measuring privacy and understanding risks, the future of privacy and data protection regulation, the US privacy perspective, privacy and security, the PRISMS Decision System, engineering privacy, cryptography, surveillance, identity management, the European General Data Protection Regulation framework, communicating privacy issues to the general population, smart technologies, technology users' privacy preferences, sensitive applications, collaboration between humans and machines, and privacy and ethics.

Author : M. Conway,L. Jarvis,O. Lehane
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614997658

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Terrorists’ Use of the Internet by M. Conway,L. Jarvis,O. Lehane Pdf

Terrorist use of the Internet has become a focus of media, policy, and scholarly attention in recent years. Terrorists use the Internet in a variety of ways, the most important being for propaganda purposes and operations-related content, but it is also potentially a means or target of attack. This book presents revised versions of a selection of papers delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on ‘Terrorists’ Use of the Internet’ held in Dublin, Ireland in June 2016. One aim of the workshop was to nurture dialogue between members of the academic, policy and practitioner communities, so the 60 delegates from 13 countries who attended the workshop included representatives from each of these. The participants encompassed a wide range of expertise (including engineering, computer science, law, criminology, political science, international relations, history, and linguistics) and the chapters contained herein reflect these diverse professional and disciplinary backgrounds. The workshop also aimed to address the convergence of threats. Following an introduction which provides an overview of the various ways in which terrorists use the Internet, the book’s remaining 25 chapters are grouped into 5 sections on cyber terrorism and critical infrastructure protection; cyber-enabled terrorist financing; jihadi online propaganda; online counterterrorism; and innovative approaches and responses. The book will be of interest to all those who need to maintain an awareness of the ways in which terrorists use the Internet and require an insight into how the threats posed by this use can be countered.

Author : Mark M. Lowenthal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509520329

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The Future of Intelligence by Mark M. Lowenthal Pdf

Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed, a trend which has inevitably prompted lively debate about intelligence gathering and analysis: what should be allowed? What boundaries, if any, should be drawn? And what changes and challenges lie ahead for intelligence activities and agencies? In this compelling book, leading intelligence scholar Mark Lowenthal explores the future of intelligence. There are, he argues, three broad areas – information technology and intelligence collection; analysis; and governance – that indicate the potential for rather dramatic change in the world of intelligence. But whether these important vectors for change will improve how intelligence works or make it more difficult remains to be seen. The only certainty is that intelligence will remain an essential feature of statecraft in our increasingly dangerous world. Drawing on the author's forty years' experience in U.S. intelligence, The Future of Intelligence offers a broad and authoritative starting point for the ongoing debate about what intelligence could be and how it may function in the years ahead.

Author : Maria Tzanou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509901692

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The Fundamental Right to Data Protection by Maria Tzanou Pdf

Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, data protection has been elevated to the status of a fundamental right in the European Union and is now enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights alongside the right to privacy. This timely book investigates the normative significance of data protection as a fundamental right in the EU. The first part of the book examines the scope, the content and the capabilities of data protection as a fundamental right to resolve problems and to provide for an effective protection. It discusses the current approaches to this right in the legal scholarship and the case-law and identifies the limitations that prevent it from having an added value of its own. It suggests a theory of data protection that reconstructs the understanding of this right and could guide courts and legislators on data protection issues. The second part of the book goes on to empirically test the reconstructed right to data protection in four case-studies of counter-terrorism surveillance: communications metadata, travel data, financial data and Internet data surveillance. The book will be of interest to academics, students, policy-makers and practitioners in EU law, privacy, data protection, counter-terrorism and human rights law.

Author : Jennifer Stisa Granick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107103238

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American Spies by Jennifer Stisa Granick Pdf

American Spies is an entertaining, accessible, and sophisticated exposition of the existing laws and technologies that enable massive modern surveillance.

Author : Amin Parsa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003819035

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Targeting in International Law by Amin Parsa Pdf

This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians. The author demonstrates that technologies of visualisation have always been part of the operation of the principle of distinction, arguing that the military uniform sustained the legal categories of civilian and combatant and actively set the boundaries of permissible and prohibited targeting, and so legal and illegal killing. Drawing upon insights from the theory of legal materiality, visual studies, critical fashion studies, and a dozen of military manuals he shows that far from being passive objects of regulation, these technologies help to draw the boundaries of the legitimate target. With its attention to the co-productive relationship between law, technologies of visualisation and legitimation of violence, this book will be relevant to a large community of researchers in international law, international relations, critical military studies, contemporary counterinsurgency operations and the sociology of law

Author : David Cole,Federico Fabbrini,Stephen Schulhofer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509905430

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Surveillance, Privacy and Trans-Atlantic Relations by David Cole,Federico Fabbrini,Stephen Schulhofer Pdf

Recent revelations, by Edward Snowden and others, of the vast network of government spying enabled by modern technology have raised major concerns both in the European Union and the United States on how to protect privacy in the face of increasing governmental surveillance. This book brings together some of the leading experts in the fields of constitutional law, criminal law and human rights from the US and the EU to examine the protection of privacy in the digital era, as well as the challenges that counter-terrorism cooperation between governments pose to human rights. It examines the state of privacy protections on both sides of the Atlantic, the best mechanisms for preserving privacy, and whether the EU and the US should develop joint transnational mechanisms to protect privacy on a reciprocal basis. As technology enables governments to know more and more about their citizens, and about the citizens of other nations, this volume offers critical perspectives on how best to respond to one of the most challenging developments of the twenty-first century.

Author : CQ Researcher,
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506352596

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Issues for Debate in American Public Policy by CQ Researcher, Pdf

This collection of non-partisan reports written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists focuses on provocative current policy issues. As an annual publication that comes together just months before it goes to press, the volume is all new and as up-to-date as possible. And because it’s CQ Researcher, the policy reports are expertly researched and written, showing all sides of an issue. Chapters follow a consistent organization—exploring three issue questions, then offering background, current context, and a look ahead—and feature a pro/con debate box. All issues include a chronology, bibliography, photos, charts, and figures. All selections are brand new and explore some of today’s most significant American public policy issues, including the marijuana industry, air pollution and climate change, racial conflict, housing discrimination, campus sexual assault, transgender rights, reforming veteran’s health care, and immigrant detention.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic surveillance
ISBN : PURD:32754084041346

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Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Duncan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780755640232

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National Security Surveillance in Southern Africa by Jane Duncan Pdf

In spite of Edward Snowden's disclosures about government abuses of dragnet communication surveillance, the surveillance industry continues to expand around the world. Many people have become resigned to a world where they cannot have a reasonable expectation of privacy. The author looks at what can be done to rein in these powers and restructure how they are used beyond the limited and often ineffective reforms that have been attempted. Using southern Africa as a backdrop, and its liberation history, Jane Duncan examines what an anti-capitalist perspective on intelligence and security powers could look like. Are the police and intelligence agencies even needed, and if so, what should they do and why? What lessons can be learnt from how security was organised during the struggles for liberation in the region? Southern Africa is seeing thousands of people in the region taking to the streets in protests. In response, governments are scrambling to acquire surveillance technologies to monitor these new protest movements. Southern Africa faces no major terrorism threats at the moment, which should make it easier to develop clearer anti-surveillance campaigns than in Europe or the US. Yet, because of tactical and strategic ambivalence about security powers, movements often engage in limited calls for intelligence and policing reforms, and fail to provide an alternative vision for policing and intelligence. Surveillance and Intelligence in Southern Africa examines what that vision could look like.

Author : Timothy H. Edgar
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815730644

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Beyond Snowden by Timothy H. Edgar Pdf

Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass Surveillance America’s mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration’s own reforms have also helped bring the National Security Agency and its programs of signals intelligence collection out of the shadows. The real question is: What should we do about mass surveillance? Timothy Edgar, a long-time civil liberties activist who worked inside the intelligence community for six years during the Bush and Obama administrations, believes that the NSA’s programs are profound threat to the privacy of everyone in the world. At the same time, he argues that mass surveillance programs can be made consistent with democratic values, if we make the hard choices needed to bring transparency, accountability, privacy, and human rights protections into complex programs of intelligence collection. Although the NSA and other agencies already comply with rules intended to prevent them from spying on Americans, Edgar argues that the rules—most of which date from the 1970s—are inadequate for this century. Reforms adopted during the Obama administration are a good first step but, in his view, do not go nearly far enough. Edgar argues that our communications today—and the national security threats we face—are both global and digital. In the twenty first century, the only way to protect our privacy as Americans is to do a better job of protecting everyone’s privacy. Beyond Surveillance: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA explains both why and how we can do this, without sacrificing the vital intelligence capabilities we need to keep ourselves and our allies safe. If we do, we set a positive example for other nations that must confront challenges like terrorism while preserving human rights. The United States already leads the world in mass surveillance. It can lead the world in mass surveillance reform.