Fordham Notes: National Security
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Fordham Panel to Scrutinize Government Spying

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Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who Edward Snowden turned to when he leaked documents about the National Security Agency's top-secret surveillance programs, will join a panel of experts on Thursday, Nov. 14 for a discussion at Fordham Law School titled "They're Watching Us: So What?"

For the discussion, which will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. at the McNally Amphitheatre, the Center on National Security has also lined up:



-Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, and author of Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive (Wiley, 2012)

Chief among the issues they will be tasked with addressing is what we know—and don’t yet know—about how surveillance is reshaping our public and private lives. 

The panel will be moderated by Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN American Center, and will also try to answer questions such as:

What effect is the expansive American surveillance state having on us? 

Are the programs that Snowden revealed inhibiting the way we think, speak, and create, distorting social interactions, damaging individuals or communities? 

The discussion will be live-streamed at http://www.pen.org/event/2013/10/25/theyre-watching-us-so-what

For more information and to RSVP, visit http://centeronnationalsecurity.org/node/835, or e-mail nationalsecurity@law.fordham.edu 

—Patrick Verel

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Fordham Law's Karen Greenberg on CNN



Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham School of Law, appeared on CNN's Newsroom with Ashleigh Banfield to discuss a top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court order, which requires Verizon to turn over records on a daily basis.

The four-page order, published by the UK-based Guardian on its website Wednesday, requires the communications giant to hand over "originating and terminating" telephone numbers as well as the location, time and duration of the calls -- and demands absolute secrecy.

Check out video of Karen Greenberg's appearance on CNN here.