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Bulk Metadata Collection: Statutory And Constitutional Considerations, Laura K. Donohue
Bulk Metadata Collection: Statutory And Constitutional Considerations, Laura K. Donohue
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephony metadata runs contrary to Congress’s intent in enacting the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The program also violates the statute in three ways: the requirement that records sought be “relevant to an authorized investigation;” the requirement that information could be obtained via subpoena duces tecum; and the steps required for use of pen registers and trap and trace devices. Additionally, the program gives rise to serious constitutional concerns. Efforts by the government to save the program on grounds of third party doctrine are unpersuasive in light of the unique circumstances of …
Examined Lives: Informational Privacy And The Subject As Object, Julie E. Cohen
Examined Lives: Informational Privacy And The Subject As Object, Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In the United States, proposals for informational privacy have proved enormously controversial. On a political level, such proposals threaten powerful data processing interests. On a theoretical level, data processors and other data privacy opponents argue that imposing restrictions on the collection, use, and exchange of personal data would ignore established understandings of property, limit individual freedom of choice, violate principles of rational information use, and infringe data processors' freedom of speech. In this article, Professor Julie Cohen explores these theoretical challenges to informational privacy protection. She concludes that categorical arguments from property, choice, truth, and speech lack weight, and mask …