The Black Holes in Our Surveillance Map

Presented at The Eleventh HOPE (2016), July 24, 2016, 4 p.m. (60 minutes)

While Edward Snowden has revealed a lot about the NSA's surveillance, our federal and local governments conduct a great deal of surveillance we still don't know about. We can begin to identify what that surveillance is by identifying the empty spaces - in criminal cases, in legislation, or timelines - where such surveillance must be. This talk will attempt to point to some of the black holes in our surveillance map, both ones we know exist and the places where one must exist. That's the first step in working collaboratively to expose that surveillance. More importantly, this talk will focus on how to see these black holes, and how people around the country can work together to make them visible again.


Presenters:

  • Marcy Wheeler
    In October 2009, over three years before Snowden confirmed it, Marcy Wheeler guessed that parts of President Bush's Stellar Wind program had been moved to FISA pen registers and Section 215. She stupidly allowed herself to be persuaded to stop pursuing that guess - a mistake she hopes to avoid in the future. She continues to find the hidden traces of surveillance programs in public documents and government obfuscation, both at her own site, emptywheel.net, as well as at other outlets. Marcy has a PhD in comparative literature and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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