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7 Feb 2014, 9:23 am
NSA Last summer, the United States was rocked by the first revelation to come from whistleblower Edward Snowden: Verizon (and likely other companies) routinely hand over millions of records on Americans' telephony metadata to the National Security Agency. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 12:00 pm
This type of snooping doesn't require crypto-cracking technology or other National Security Agency spying tools disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 5:11 pm
" Poitras' film Citizenfour, documenting the Edward Snowden revelations, won the 2015 Oscar award for Best Documentary. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 9:30 pm
Most recently, Edward Snowden's 2013 revelations about the National Security Agency's global mass surveillance have sparked controversy and demonstrated that totalitarian regimes are not the only ones that regularly invade citizens' privacy both at home and abroad.The German Historical Institute's Spring Lecture Series 2015, "Intelligence Services and Civil Liberties: Security and Privacy in Historical Perspective," organized in cooperation with the… [read post]
18 Jun 2019, 8:10 am
For example, a 2014 report by the Washington Post that reviewed of a “large cache of intercepted conversations” provided by Edward Snowden revealed that 9 out of 10 account holders “were not the intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else. [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 12:31 pm
The NSA has occupied the headlines all summer, since former contract employee Edward Snowden released materials to the media which exposed details of large-scale government surveillance programs. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 9:15 am
This majority should come as no surprise, as we've seen a sea change in opinion polls on privacy since the Edward Snowden revelations started in June. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 1:07 pm
Following Edward Snowden's disclosures, Rep. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 1:48 pm
The law had been in the works since 2009; it was made a priority by the Brazilian government in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA espionage activities targeting Brazilian communications data. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 9:24 am
Conservative activist and lawyer Larry Klayman filed the suit in the aftermath of the first Edward Snowden disclosure, in which The Guardian revealed how the NSA was collecting telephone records on a massive scale from the telecommunications company Verizon. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 1:00 am
* Investigatory Powers Bill: royal assent to controversial new data regime imminentContinue with the UK “Snooper’s Charter” -- after 12+ months of debate, the Investigatory Powers Bill passed through its final stages in the House of Lords on 16 November, granting the government surveillance powers described by US whistle-blower Edward Snowden as “the most extreme … in the history of western democracy. [read post]
12 Dec 2013, 9:12 am
Thanks to Edward Snowden we now understand that the NSA runs many dragnet surveillance programs, some of which target Americans. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 3:19 pm
In early June, The Guardian published a classified document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden detailing how the agency is vacuuming up call data from the Verizon phone network under the auspices of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 10:08 am
The publication launched last year with the short-term goal of “providing a platform to report on the documents previously provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 12:19 am
The reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a ruling follows litigation in which privacy campaigner Max Schrems maintained that the Irish Data Protection Commissioner was wrong to refuse to investigate whistleblower Edward Snowden’s claims that Dublin-based Facebook International had passed on its EU users’ data to the US National Security Agency as part of its Prism surveillance programme. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 7:54 am
Other whistleblowers—including Thomas Drake, Bill Binney and Edward Snowden—have revealed more detail about how this technique feeds data into the NSA's massive databases of communications. [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 2:15 pm
We received more than 2,500 donations from people who ordered a free copy Almost 30,000 new people have joined our email list since Friday, and we've had 2.6 million website views We received media coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, PBS Newshour, Fusion, Intercept, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Nation, Politico, the Stranger and many more More than 2 million people saw our Facebook and Twitter posts, with folks like Justine Bateman, Andy Richter, Rob Reiner,… [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 12:29 pm
Is Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor? [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 5:00 am
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2 Oct 2014, 1:07 pm
Months before Edward Snowden kicked off the international debate over electronic surveillance, EFF scored a major victory when a federal judge ordered the FBI to cease its practice of issuing NSLs—demands to telecommunication providers to provide information about their users that are not approved in advance by a judge. [read post]
