The Damage is Spreading: It’s Time to Rein in the NSA and Reform Surveillance Practices

Paula Musich

Summary Bullets:

• The fallout continues to spread as a result of the disclosure of NSA surveillance activities involving cloud computing and other technology companies
• It’s time IT professionals get involved and call for reform and better oversight

New and startling revelations on NSA data gathering activities continue to peel away like an onion skin from the Edward Snowden leak, and as they do, it becomes ever so much clearer that the NSA has gone way, way too far.   And indeed it is time to reform regulation and oversight of NSA and other intelligence agency surveillance activities.