Seminar on The Constitution and Mass Surveillance

(This seminar's main instructor is Tzung-Jen Tsai 蔡宗珍. I teach the following four sessions.)

2014-03-17

• Chapters 1-4, 11, 14, Weaving the Web.
• Chapters 1-2, 5-7, Consent of the Networked.
• EFF's Who Has Your Back? 2013 report.
• Class slides in PDF and ODP.

2014-03-24.

(Today's class is cancelled. It will be re-scheduled. 今天不上課，擇日補課。)

2014-03-31

Guest lecture by Mr. Yi-Feng Tzeng. Class slides in PDF.

2014-04-7

• • Two related stories: One at the Internet Archive, and another one about e-mail service providers Lavabit and Silent Circle (letter from Lavabit to it users).
  • Lavabit entry at the Wikipedia.
  • National security letters entry at the Wikipedia.
  • National security letters page and FAQ at the EFF.
• • US FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Amendments Act of 2008.
  • A guide to FISA §1881a, provided by Privacy International.
  • FISA Amendments Act of 2008 entry at the Wikipedia.
• • The NSA Documents Database, as collected and organized by ACLU.
  • NSA "SMS: A Goldmine" slides at cryptome.org.
  • NSA PRISM slides at the Internet Archive.
  • PRISM entry at the Wikipedia.
  • Upstream collection entry at the Wikipedia.
• • Spiegel Online's Interactive Graphic: The NSA's Spy Catalog.
  • The Guardian's NSA Files Decoded.
• • Terms of Service; Didn't Read (ToS;DR)
  • Google's Transparency Report (the part on requesting for information about users).
• Class slides in PDF and ODP.