EFF and Security Experts Call for End to 25 Years of Mass Surveillance

Digital rights advocates Cindy Cohn and Bruce Schneier have published an op-ed arguing that 25 years of mass surveillance programs in the United States have gone on long enough. The piece, hosted on Lawfare Media, makes the case that decades of bulk data collection have failed to justify their continued existence. The authors contend that the costs to civil liberties and privacy far outweigh any claimed security benefits. They are calling on policymakers to dismantle or fundamentally reform the surveillance infrastructure that has expanded since the late 1990s.