Scott Shackford

Scott Shackford has been an editor and writer at Reason.com since 2012. Much of his writing focuses on the intersection between government regulations and policies and civil liberties. The topics on his beat include a heavy emphasis on technological advancements and how they intersect with government authority in aspects as varied as drones to government “watch lists” to online surveillance to encryption.

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