*Can Privacy Be Saved?* David Cole Liberty and Security in a Changing World: Report and Recommendations of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies December 12, 2013, 303 pp., available at www.whitehouse.gov <http://www.whitehouse.gov> Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence January 17, 2014, available at www.whitehouse.gov <http://www.whitehouse.gov> Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board January 23, 2014, 234 pp., available at www.fas.org <http://www.fas.org> 1. When the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) first authorized the National Security Agency in May 2006 to collect and search the telephone metadata records of every American---including every number we call, how often we call, when we call, and how long we talk---it did not even write an opinion justifying its decision. Judge Malcolm J. Howard, one of eleven federal judges hand-picked by the chief justice of the Supreme Court to serve on the FISC, simply issued a secret ten-page order, largely comprised of the rules and regulations under which the program was to operate. The order included no discussion whatever of whether the program was constitutional. It asserted formulaically that the government had satisfied the requirements of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, but included no explanation of how the program did so. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/06/can-privacy-be-saved/