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4 Oct 2013, 11:40 am by Dan Goodin
The classified memos and training manuals—which were leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and reported by The Guardian, show that the NSA and the UK-based Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) are able to bypass Tor protections, but only against select targets and often with considerable effort. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 3:35 pm by Megan Geuss
Judge Pauley’s opinion, which began by broadly invoking the events of September 11, 2001, contrasts with the opinion of a DC-based district judge, who ruled earlier this month that the widespread NSA surveillance revealed in June by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was unconstitutional due to its broad reach. [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 3:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
The conference, appropriately dubbed "RightsCon," featured many notable speakers, including Edward Snowden via video-conference, but relatively few from those inside government. [read post]
13 May 2014, 8:23 am by Sean Gallagher
While many of the capabilities and activities Greenwald details in the book were previously published in reports drawing from Edward Snowden’s vast haul of NSA documents, a number of new pieces of information have come to light—including the NSA’s and GCHQ’s efforts to use airlines’ in-flight data service to track and surveil targeted passengers in real time. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 11:40 am by Dan Goodin
The proposal, announced in a letter published Wednesday by an official with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), comes after documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden heightened concerns about government surveillance of Internet communications. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 9:15 am by Joe Mullin
The nation's top intelligence official, who became a controversial figure in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations about mass surveillance, has said he's stepping down. [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 3:23 pm by Megan Geuss
A report from the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday gives a much clearer look at how—and how much—information is gathered by the secret NSA programs recently brought to light in the Edward Snowden leaks. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 7:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
This database program appears to be wholly separate from the National Security Agency’s metadata program revealed by Edward Snowden, but it targets similar materials and is collected by a different agency. [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 9:10 am by Cyrus Farivar
Last summer, in the wake of leaks from Edward Snowden showing that the National Security Agency had targeted Brazil President Dilma Rousseff, the country publicly lambasted the United States and made the case that companies that do business in Brazil must keep data on Brazilian citizens locally. [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 9:28 am by David Kravets
They say the global community is already skittish about trusting US-based tech companies in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks. [read post]
27 Nov 2013, 9:30 am by Dan Goodin
According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and reported by the Huffington Post, the program was designed to demonstrate how the "personal vulnerabilities" of the six "exemplars" could be dredged up through electronic surveillance and used to undermine a target's credibility. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 12:06 pm by Cyrus Farivar
” According to a new front-page story on Thursday, the Post says that it now has the entire 178-page classified budget summary as supplied by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. [read post]
27 Sep 2013, 6:16 am by Joe Mullin
Ron Wyden Edward Snowden's revelations about widespread surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) started producing real political blowback in July, with a bill that almost defunded the NSA. [read post]
29 May 2015, 10:50 am by David Kravets
The legal authority for the bulk telephone metadata program Edward Snowden disclosed is set to expire at the stroke of midnight on Monday. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 2:56 am by Tom Smith
Here was Greenwald, Edward Snowden’s interlocutor, raining lightning bolts on the notoriously hawkish Fox News, speaking to an ex-Weekly Standard writer turned neocon critic, about how his publication — funded by eBay leftist Pierre Omidyar — refused to allow him any criticism of Joe Biden, and instead embraced the opinions of the same American Deep State Greenwald has constantly (and often justifiably) criticized. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 5:35 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Talk Radio News Service In one of the most prominent legal challenges to government intelligence gathering since the Edward Snowden disclosures, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against four top Obama Administration officials. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 10:30 am by Joe Silver
The disclosures by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden of dragnet government surveillance, including a revelation that the US has infiltrated the networks of China-based telecommunications company Huawei, have understandably upset the Chinese. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 3:00 pm by Cyrus Farivar
The opinion was only now published due to FISC judge Reggie Walton, who ordered the government to conduct a declassification review of such decisions and related orders in the wake of the leaks provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 11:47 am by David Kravets
A majority of Americans have not altered their online behavior in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations detailing widespread US government electronic surveillance activities, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Monday. [read post]