In conjunction with the summit, the Institute hosted Better World (Beijing), an alumni community event that marked MIT's largest-ever gathering on record of MIT graduates in Greater China.
lawyer who coordinated the group's gathering of police records.
Paradoxically, the Fisa court is now at the center of the furore surrounding NSA gathering of phone records and internet data following the disclosures of Edward Snowden.
As for the gathering of phone records of reporters at the Associated Press, in pursuit of a leak about an anti-terrorist operation in Yemen, the intrusion has understandably created an outcry in the media, and plays into fears about the "Big Brother" state.
The group, seeking to block the gathering of telephone records "metadata," asks how all of the NSA's information gathering meets the standard of being "relevant".
Such a move now would have allowed BMG to introduce Mr. Reid at the big gathering of its recording executives next week.
In covering the conventions from the vantage point of neighborhood children perched in a tree house, each publication is seeking to be not only the gatherings' paper of record but also the conventioneers' first read.
Also, sensitivity in that country's robust journalistic culture is already high due to recent covert gathering of the phone records of several journalists at the Associated Press, an event which led the US Attorney-General to issue new guidelines on 12 July 2013.
The memo, along with comments Wednesday by FBI Director James B. Comey, puts pressure on lawmakers to act at a time when congressional Republicans remain divided over the NSA's controversial gathering of private telephone records for counterterrorism purposes.
President Obama in January called for an end to the NSA's gathering of Americans' phone records, a program that has generated extensive controversy since it was revealed last June in a document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
