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Edward Snowden's revelations from the past year, of invasive spying programs like PRSIM and Stellar Wind, have left Americans shocked and demanding more transparency by government agencies. [read post]
2 Oct 2018, 9:11 am by Dave Maass
We also recruited some of our favorite thinkers on digital rights to contribute to the collection: anthropologist Gabriella Coleman contemplates anonymity; Edward Snowden explains blockchain; journalist Julia Angwin and Pioneer Award-winning artist Trevor Paglen discuss the intersections of their work; Pioneer Award winner Malkia Cyril discusses the historical surveillance of black bodies; and Ken Montenegro and Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying debate author and intelligence… [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 1:15 pm
Based on documents and media reports released in the past few years following the revelations by Edward Snowden, it appears that in addition to authorizing bulk searches of Yahoo emails, the FISC’s secret rulings address a range of novel surveillance activities, including: The government’s use of malware, which it calls “Network Investigative Techniques” The government’s efforts to compel technology companies to weaken or circumvent their own… [read post]
3 May 2022, 7:58 am
The Supreme Court, in his view, doesn't get special deference among the institutions, and the leaker can be another national hero in the tradition of Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 3:20 pm by Dave Maass
The ACLU filed its lawsuit against the Director of National Intelligence, NSA, Department of Defense, Department of Justice and FBI last year after former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealed a secret legal order allowing for the indiscriminate capture of call metadata from Verizon Business Services. [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 1:26 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
Permitting only encryption that can be removed means, as Edward Snowden commented on Twitter, banning “encryption that works. [read post]
As Edward Snowden informed us nine months ago, the administration's official, court-sanctioned position is that all data can be relevant to an investigation in the digital world. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 11:11 am by Rainey Reitman and Rainey Reitman
De indicated that tech companies probably just didn't know the word PRISM—which is the name of the Internet data mining program that was leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden—because it was "an internal government term" for the program. [read post]
5 Jun 2017, 10:15 am
Incidentally, the Supreme Court’s decision comes on the four-year anniversary of the first of Edward Snowden’s disclosures, which revealed that the National Security Agency had been collecting sensitive records about virtually every phone call made in the United States. [read post]
15 Dec 2013, 9:41 am
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now know that the US government has since 2001 been doing an really good job acting like the KGB of 1955. [read post]
12 Mar 2025, 1:01 pm by Cindy Cohn
While we were able to use his evidence to make some change, both EFF and Mark were ultimately let down by Congress and the Courts, which have refused to take the steps necessary to end the mass spying even after Edward Snowden provided even more evidence of it in 2013. [read post]
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we all know that our government has myriad ways of tracking our activities and communications online. [read post]
Obama, a challenge to the NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata first revealed by Edward Snowden. [read post]
Americans understand that the surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden violate the Constitution, and it has been heartening to witness the protest movement growing in response. [read post]
20 May 2020, 8:17 am by ACLU
We’ve talked to everyone from Megan Rapinoe, to Stacey Abrams, to Edward Snowden, to Tarana Burke. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 12:00 am
  When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed classified information about widespread government surveillance programs, he launched a public debate about privacy in the digital age. [read post]
10 Dec 2016, 6:56 am by Graham Smith
KARMA POLICE was (and may or may not still be) a GCHQ database of web browsing records revealed by the Edward Snowden documents. [read post]
20 May 2017, 8:51 am by cindy
  This has come through a combination of litigation pressure, ongoing activism and public concern, technological efforts to encrypt more of the Internet, Congressional pressure, and a steady stream of information coming out about its activities including from government investigations spurred by whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Mark Klein. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 8:58 am by Philip Segal
  We’ve written previously about this contractor, USIS, because this is the company that did the security clearance for Edward Snowden. [read post]
1 May 2014, 1:25 pm by Dave Maass
Among the most significant records EFF is seeking in this FOIA suit: - The FISA court's "Raw Take" order, which was revealed in documents released by Edward Snowden. [read post]