Chapter III. Foreign Intelligence in an Inter-Networked World: Time for a Re-Evaluation

Abstract

The recent and dramatic expansion of foreign intelligence surveillance activities, revealed definitively in a trove of documents made public by former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, can be traced to a few drivers. First and foremost, technical changes have made an immense amount of data practically accessible and analyzable in ways that have no precedent in human history. Most of our activities have migrated to digital networks, raising distinct implications in the foreign intelligence-gathering..