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US reputation suffers when it stands against human rights & rule of law – Snowden
US reputation suffers when it stands against human rights & rule of law – Snowden Accepting Norway’s freedom of speech prize via a video link from Moscow, due to Washington’s pressure for his extradition, whistleblower Edward Snowden noted that the US’ reputation is crumbling every year it stands against human rights, the rule of law […]
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended In July 2013, GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency,forced journalists at the London headquarters of The Guardian to completely obliterate the memory of the computers on which they kept copies of top-secret documents provided to them by former NSA contractor and […]
The Surveillance State Goes Mainstream: Windows 10 Is Watching (& Logging) Everything
The Surveillance State Goes Mainstream: Windows 10 Is Watching (& Logging) Everything If Edward Snowden’s patriotic exposure of all things ‘super secret surveillance state’ in America were not enough, Newsweek reports that, as 10s of millions of hungry PC users download the free upgrade, Windows 10 is watching – and logging and sharing – everything users do… and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Snowden Explains Why Apple Should Continue To Fight the Government on Encryption
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Snowden Explains Why Apple Should Continue To Fight the Government on Encryption As the Obama administration campaign to stop the commercialization of strong encryption heats up, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is firing back on behalf of the companies like Apple and Google that are finding themselves under attack. “Technologists and companies working to protect […]
UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists
UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists A secretive British police investigation focusing on journalists working with Edward Snowden’s leaked documents remains ongoing two years after it was quietly launched, The Intercept can reveal. London’s Metropolitan Police Service has admitted it is still carrying out the probe, which is being led by its counterterrorism department, […]
Former High Ranking U.S. Senator Wants to “Hang Edward Snowden on the Courthouse Square”
Former High Ranking U.S. Senator Wants to “Hang Edward Snowden on the Courthouse Square” Michael Krieger | Posted Monday Jul 20, 2015 at 2:04 pm We need to hang him on the courthouse square as soon as we get a hold of him. – Former vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Saxby Chambliss, on Edward Snowden […]
Are You Ready for the e-PATRIOT Act?
Are You Ready for the e-PATRIOT Act? Earlier this month, news emerged that the US government had suffered its worst cyberattack ever. On June 4, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) revealed that hackers had penetrated its networks, possibly for many months. The data thieves stole personal information of up to 18 million current and […]
Government Trolls Are Using ‘Psychology-Based Influence Techniques’ On YouTube, Facebook And Twitter
Government Trolls Are Using ‘Psychology-Based Influence Techniques’ On YouTube, Facebook And Twitter Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid government troll? Well, there is a very good chance that you were not imagining things. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have solid proof that paid government trolls […]
Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, To Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months
Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, To Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months A federal judge with the top-secret surveillance court on Monday breezily reinstated the NSA bulk domestic surveillance program that was temporarily halted a month ago, allowing the agency to go back to hoovering up telephone metadata for five months while it unwinds […]
Orwell’s Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
Orwell’s Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance When government agencies and private companies access and synthesize our data, they take on the power to novelize our lives. Their profiles of our behavior are semi-fictional stories, pieced together from the digital traces we leave as we go about our days. No matter how many […]
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial The Council of Europe, the self-proclaimed “democratic conscience of Greater Europe,” urged the United States on Tuesday to allow NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to return home and make the case that his actions had positive effects. The call for Snowden to be […]
