In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about government surveillance, Laura Poitras, director of the Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour, and many Internet-freedom activists and security engineers have told the public to trust math—encryption—not politics or law to protect their privacy. Our track record of reining in US surveillance through the law is abysmal: To date, there are no proven instances of a law permanently removing an operational, cost-effective, productive foreign-surveillance capability on human rights or constitutional grounds.
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