NSA surveillance reflects a broader interpretation of the Patriot Act

Deirdre Mulligan quoted in MIT Technology Review, June 7, 2013

Deirdre Mulligan … is also worried, and she’s not the only one. She attended the Privacy Law Scholars Conference at UC Berkeley on Friday and says the feeling was “morose.” “I think this revelation makes clear there was a cost to not having a more detailed conversation and public decision about the balances between democracy and policing,” she says.