People need to trust the government, which requires...
People need to trust the government, which requires a new approach to privacy, New America Foundation Vice President and Director of the Open Technology Institute Sascha Meinrath told White House officials Tuesday. The New America Foundation described a Tuesday meeting…
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between Meinrath and others and administration officials, including Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Chief White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler. “While the government assures us that there is balance between privacy and security in the execution of these programs, the information that has leaked to date shows the opposite,” Meinrath said in a statement. “To be clear, continued violations of privacy only make us all less safe by accelerating a virtual worldwide arms race of surveillance, encouraging bad actors to develop methods to circumvent American monitoring.” The U.S. “shouldn’t be on par with China in spying on its own people,” he said, urging on the government to disclose all its surveillance activity.