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Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook
Photo: Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times/Redux EDWARD SNOWDEN ON PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP AND FACEBOOK EXACTLY FIVE YEARS ago this week, Edward Snowden absconded to Hong Kong with a trove of documents detailing the extent of the U.S. government’s global and domestic surveillance programs. He soon found himself in exile in Russia and […]
I Am Julian Assange
I Am Julian Assange Carl Spitzweg The raven 1845 Julian Assange appears to be painfully close to being unceremoniously thrown out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. If that happens, the consequences for journalism, for freedom of speech, and for press freedom, will resound around the world for a very long time. It is very […]
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism Whether it creeps into politics, marketing, or simple profiling, the nature of surveillance as totality has been affirmed by certain events this decade. The Edward Snowden disclosures of 2013 demonstrated the complicity and collusion between Silicon Valley and the technological stewards of the national security state. It took the […]
The NSA Worked to ‘Track Down’ Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Illustration: Tyler Comrie for The Intercept THE NSA WORKED TO “TRACK DOWN” BITCOIN USERS, SNOWDEN DOCUMENTS REVEAL INTERNET PARANOIACS DRAWN to bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency. Increasingly popular among get-rich-quick speculators, bitcoin started out as a high-minded project to make financial transactions public and mathematically verifiable — while […]
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media” NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in […]
Opinion: Fearless Adversarial Journalism Doesn’t Work When You Are Funded By A Billionaire
Opinion: Fearless Adversarial Journalism Doesn’t Work When You Are Funded By A Billionaire Disobedient Media previously opined on the dagger-in-the-back publication of a hit piece against Wikileaks’ Julian Assange just one day after a UK magistrate, with blatant conflict of interest in the matter, shot down his legal representatives’ attempt to finally free him from […]
The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the CIA
The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the CIA FISA is an abomination. Let’s get that out of the way. And since I don’t believe there are any coincidences in U.S. or geo-politics, the releasing of the explosive four-page FISA memo after Congress reauthorized FISA is suspicious. Former NSA analyst (traitor? hero?) turned […]
Censorship “Is The Cause Of Every Revolution In Human History”
Censorship “Is The Cause Of Every Revolution In Human History” In response to a question about stopping “fake news”, Edward Snowden notes: Censorship does not do good. We might want to believe it does, and this gets into the fake news problem, for example, that if we just empower Facebook to decide what we can […]
Edward Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone to Physically Guard Your Laptop
Illustration: The Intercept EDWARD SNOWDEN’S NEW APP USES YOUR SMARTPHONE TO PHYSICALLY GUARD YOUR LAPTOP LIKE MANY OTHER journalists, activists, and software developers I know, I carry my laptop everywhere while I’m traveling. It contains sensitive information; messaging app conversations, email, password databases, encryption keys, unreleased work, web browsers logged into various accounts, and so […]
NBC Pushes an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory on Behalf of CIA
NBC Pushes an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory on Behalf of CIA Retired National Security Agency (NSA) chief technology officer William Binney is being branded as a “conspiracy theorist” by corporate media outlets, most notably, the Comcast-owned National Broadcasting Corporation, for co-authoring a controversial memo issued this past summer by a group of former intelligence officers – […]
European Court to Decide Whether U.K. Mass Surveillance Revealed By Snowden Violates Human Rights
Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg News/Getty Images EUROPEAN COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER U.K. MASS SURVEILLANCE REVEALED BY SNOWDEN VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS BRITISH SPY AGENCIES are under scrutiny in a landmark court case challenging the legality of top-secret mass surveillance programs revealed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. A panel of 10 judges at the European Court […]
Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law
Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOBBYING HARD FOR SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE LAW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is pushing hard for the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law — section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA — three months before it sunsets in December. To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, […]
Taking Aim at Wikileaks
Taking Aim at Wikileaks Various scribbles have started to pepper the conversation started by the adventurous Mike Pompeo after he branded WikiLeaks a hostile intelligence agency before the Center for Strategic and International Studies. (This would have generated a wry smile of content from Julian Assange.) The words of the Central Intelligence Agency chief are […]
