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Brazil’s media ‘incited protests,’ favored Rousseff’s impeachment from start – Greenwald
Brazil’s media ‘incited protests,’ favored Rousseff’s impeachment from start – Greenwald Glenn Greenwald © Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters Brazil-based US journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, said Brazilian media is owned by a few families that have a clear political interest in pushing President Rousseff out by “inciting street […]
Edward Snowden Demonstrates How To “Go Black”
Edward Snowden Demonstrates How To “Go Black” When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden first exposed the world tojust how easily the government could compromise their technology and spy on them, many immediately sought ways to secure their data and protect their gadgets. But, as Wired.com reports, Snowden is here to help. “‘Going Black’ is a pretty big ask,” he […]
The Intercept is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why.
THE INTERCEPT IS BROADENING ACCESS TO THE SNOWDEN ARCHIVE. HERE’S WHY FROM THE TIME we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts […]
Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance
Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance “I’VE BEEN WAITING 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to […]
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized FROM THE START of the reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaked document archive, government defenders insisted that no illegal behavior was revealed. That was always false: Multiple courts have now found the domestic metadata spying program in violation of the Constitution and relevant statutes and have […]
Chilling Effect’ of Mass Surveillance Is Silencing Dissent Online, Study Says
Chilling Effect’ of Mass Surveillance Is Silencing Dissent Online, Study Says Thanks largely to whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, most Americans now realize that the intelligence community monitors and archives all sorts of online behaviors of both foreign nationals and US citizens. But did you know that the very fact that you know this […]
Congressional Hearings on Surveillance Programs to Kick Off — in Secret
Congressional Hearings on Surveillance Programs to Kick Off — in Secret The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing next week on two of the NSA spying programs revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden that vacuum up domestic content despite being ostensibly targeted at foreigners: PRISM and Upstream. But, to the great consternation of 26 government accountability […]
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act Back in 2014, civil liberties and privacy advocates were up in arms when the government tried to quietly push through the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a law which would allow federal agencies – including the NSA – to share cybersecurity, […]
NSA Leaker Thomas Drake Praises Report Showing U.S.’ Failure Toward Whistleblowers
NSA Leaker Thomas Drake Praises Report Showing U.S.’ Failure Toward Whistleblowers Former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was originally charged with leaking classified information. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP) Whistleblower Thomas Drake, who in 2010 became the first American charged with espionage in almost 40 years and who was a predecessor of Edward Snowden, applauds […]
The War on Encryption and Bitcoin – Nothing to Do with Terrorism, Everything to Do with State Control
The War on Encryption and Bitcoin – Nothing to Do with Terrorism, Everything to Do with State Control In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with […]
