[Cryptography] not crypto, but related to recent discussions and of possible interest to list members in the Boston area

[R. Hirschfeld]

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Subject: TALK: Monday 10-28-2013 Monday 10-28-13 NSA Mass Surveillance:
Turning the Fourth (and First) Amendment on It's Head
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Date:    Wed, October 23, 2013 06:01
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NSA Mass Surveillance: Turning the Fourth (and First) Amendment on It's Head
Speaker: Cindy Cohn
Speaker Affiliation: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Host: MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL


Date: Monday, October 28, 2013
Time:  2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Refreshments Time: 2:45 PM
Location: MIT CSAIL, Stata Center, Bldg 32 Kiva Conference Room, 4th
Floor, G449

EFF's Legal Director will walk us through the NSA Mass Surveillance that
has been now confirmed by the government in light of the revelations of
Edward Snowden.  She'll discuss the history of the spying revelations, up
to and including the recent revelations, review the legal challenges that
EFF and others have been mounting since 2006.  She'll discuss the
government's changing legal justifications for the spying and its claims
of oversight by the legislative, executive and judicial branches of
government and the Constitutional implications of mass surveillance. 
Finally, she'll walk through what EFF and others are doing to try to bring
the rule of law back to the NSA and what the implications are for all
Americans, especially those who seek to develop and sell  technologies.

Relevant URL: http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/
For more information please contact: Susana Kevorkova, 617-248-8424, <a
href="mailto:skevorkova at csail.mit.edu">skevorkova at csail.mit.edu</a>

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