\n<\/em><\/strong>Tim\u00a0Edgar
\n<\/strong>Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute at Brown University<\/p>\n
This Wednesday@Hariri event is hosted as part of the Cyber Alliance Speaker Series.<\/i><\/p>\n
Abstract: <\/strong>Civil liberties activist Timothy Edgar describes how he tried to make a difference by going inside America\u2019s growing surveillance state as an intelligence official in his new book, Beyond Snowden<\/em>. Edgar explains how Snowden\u2019s leaks of top secret documents that to reforms that made the NSA more transparent, more accountable, more protective of privacy\u2014and, contrary to conventional wisdom, actually strengthened the NSA by making it more effective. While the reforms implemented by the Obama administration were a good first step, much more needs to be done to prevent abuse. Donald Trump\u2019s election in 2016 prompted fears among both civil libertarians and intelligence officials that a new president would abuse his national security powers. The United States leads the world in mass surveillance. In Beyond Snowden<\/em>, Edgar explains how the United States can lead the world in surveillance reform.<\/p>\n 3:00 PM \u2013 4:30 PM on Wednesday, November\u00a08, 2017 Refreshments & networking\u00a0at 2:45 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA Tim\u00a0Edgar Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute at Brown University This Wednesday@Hariri event is hosted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11776,11748,11774,11747,11716,11720],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12843,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions\/12843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/hic\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-11-08.Edgar_-e1508175417292.jpg\")
Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>Timothy H. Edgar defended privacy as an ACLU lawyer before going inside America\u2019s growing surveillance state as an intelligence official in both the Bush and Obama administrations \u2013 a story he tells in Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA<\/em>.\u00a0 In 2013, Edgar left government to become a Senior Fellow at Brown University\u2019s Watson Institute and helped put together Brown\u2019s Executive Master in Cybersecurity. Edgar also serves on the advisory board of Virtru, an encryption software company. He is a contributing editor to Lawfare<\/em> and his work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, the Guardian, Foreign Affairs<\/em>, and Wired<\/em>. Edgar is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"