Truth-seeking and the principles of discrimination, necessity, proportionality and reciprocity in national security intelligence activity

National security intelligence is information or other data collected, analyzed and disseminated by intelligence agencies (in particular) and done so in the service of these agencies’ primary institutional purpose (Miller 2010), at least in liberal democracies. Here it is understood that this institutional purpose and these actions are to be...

The definition of terrorism

Use of stings in counter-terrorism: entrapment and ethics

Collective responsibility and counter-terrorism

Preventive Detention of Terrorists

Privacy, Encryption and Counter-Terrorism

Privacy is an important moral right but so is security, including security from terrorist attacks. Encryption protects privacy rights but also affords protection to terrorists and impedes legitimate counter-terrorist operations. This chapter analyses this ethical dilemma.

Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace

This article provides definitions of fake news, hate speech and propaganda, respectively. These phenomenon are corruptive of the epistemic norms, e.g. to tell the truth. It also elaborates on the right to freedom of communication and its relation both to censoring propaganda and to the role of epistemic institutions, such as a free and...