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16 Jun 2023, 2:50 pm by Cindy Cohn
FPF was started in 2012 by Trevor Timm with help from Rainey Reitman and Micah Lee, who were all EFF staffers at the time, along with Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and a few others. [read post]
15 Mar 2022, 3:00 am by Joe Mullin
Transcript: Laura Poitras: It was very aggressive. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 10:21 am by Quinta Jurecic
In the days after his arrest, I sat down to watch two documentaries on the WikiLeaks founder: “We Steal Secrets,” a 2013 film by Alex Gibney, and Laura Poitras’s 2017 “Risk. [read post]
24 Sep 2018, 10:39 am by Victoria Clark, Anushka Limaye
” The panel will feature Martin Baron, Carrie Cordero, Jameel Jaffer, Alberto Mora, and Laura Poitras. [read post]
2 Jun 2018, 7:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
After much persistence and after roping in another journalist, Laura Poitras, eventually Snowden did get through—the rest is history. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 4:28 pm by Jamie Williams
The government recently revealed for the first time that federal agents maintained an open investigation of our client, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, for six years despite never finding any evidence that she committed a crime or was a threat to national security. [read post]
17 Oct 2017, 3:56 am by Ryan Mulvey
Customs and Border Protection told a D.C. federal court Friday that they’ve provided filmmaker Laura Poitras with all information available under the Freedom of Information Act related to why she was continually detained at airport security checkpoints for six years, fighting her allegation that they’re wrongly withholding information.Read more here (subscription required). [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:50 am by jamie
Laura Poitras—the Academy and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist behind CITIZENFOUR and Risk—wants to know why she was stopped and detained at the U.S. border every time she entered the country between July 2006 and June 2012. [read post]
17 May 2017, 12:01 pm by aaron
This year’s Pioneers will join an esteemed group of past award winners that includes the late visionary activist Aaron Swartz; open source pioneer Limor "Ladyada" Fried; and the documentarian and journalist Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, among many remarkable activists, entrepreneurs, public interest attorneys, and others. 2016 Pioneer Award winners & EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 1:03 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
While in Hong Kong, he gave a very small portion of these documents to three handpicked journalists: Laura Poitras, a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker, Glenn Greenwald, a Brazil-based blogger, and Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The Washington Post. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 6:45 am
James Risen and Laura Poitras were subject to public investigations and searches, but every reporter and filmmaker is affected by electronic surveillance and the storage of data, which could potentially be used against them and their sources. [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 1:30 pm
The journalism produced from Snowden’s disclosures has been awarded almost every prize imaginable, including the Pulitzer Prize for the reporters at the Washington Post and the Guardian, and an Academy Award for Laura Poitras’ documentary “Citizenfour. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 5:11 pm by Shahid Buttar
Led by film makers Laura Poitras and David Felix Sutcliffe, the petition also calls for an official investigation exploring "the larger pattern of abuse that has emerged on a federal, state, and local level, and the threat it poses to free speech and a free press. [read post]
9 May 2016, 3:25 pm by Nicole Puller
This year’s Pioneers will join an esteemed group of past award winners that includes the late, visionary activist Aaron Swartz; open-source pioneer Limor "Ladyada" Fried; and the documentarian and journalist Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, among many remarkable activists, entrepreneurs, public interest attorneys, and others. 2015 Pioneer Award winners and presenters. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 1:06 pm by Jessica Preis
By Jessica Preis* On February 5, 2016, journalist, filmmaker, and artist Laura Poitras opened an exhibit at the Whitney Museum titled Laura Poitras: Astro Noise, which will run through May 5, 2016. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 1:06 pm by Jessica Preis
By Jessica Preis* On February 5, 2016, journalist, filmmaker, and artist Laura Poitras opened an exhibit at the Whitney Museum titled Laura Poitras: Astro Noise, which will run through May 5, 2016. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 8:58 am by Jamie Williams
EFF is currently representing Poitras in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, and some of the documents disclosed in the course of that lawsuit are on display as part of the exhibit, Laura Poitras: Astro Noise. [read post]