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18 Sep 2014, 4:09 pm
In an article posted on The Intercept this week journalist, documentary maker and Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras documents how the NSA is tapping into Germany’s largest telecommunications providers by accessing the passwords of the system administrators. [read post]
17 Sep 2014, 8:57 pm
" This week, the Die Spiegel and Laura Poitras brought that battle between intelligence services and those trying to secure the Internet to life when they filmed employees at one satellite Internet provider as they learned that their networks were being exploited, and even their own lives were being monitored in order to defeat their corporate protections. [read post]
14 Sep 2014, 3:51 pm
Spiegel Online - Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Michael Sontheimer: [Treaure Map] “is the mandate for a massive raid on the digital world. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 12:38 pm
More egregiously, Laura Poitras and Der Spiegel provided detailed information about US intelligence collection on Turkey in a scarcely veiled effort to sabotage the US-Turkey relationship – and to relieve the German government of the embarrassment of a leak showing that despite Angela Merkel’s claim that friends shouldn’t spy on friends, Germany spies enthusiastically on Turkey. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 11:18 am
Previous honorees include Aaron Swartz, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, Tim Berners-Lee, and the Tor Project, among many others. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 7:50 pm
Copies are now in the hands of three groups: First Look Media, set up by journalist Glenn Greenwald and American documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, the two original recipients of the documents; The Guardian newspaper, which also received copies before the British government pressured it into transferring physical custody (but not ownership) to The New York Times; and Barton Gellman, a writer for The Washington Post. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 6:35 am
Greenwald’s new book (buy a copy here and a portion of the proceeds go to EFF) details how he and journalist Laura Poitras met NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and then published a series of articles that would change Americans’ perception of their government, ignite a worldwide debate around surveillance, and challenge notions about investigative journalism. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 4:11 am
The fact that he, Snowden, and Laura Poitras were all citizens shouldn’t have mattered, because protections for U.S. persons are all farcical. [read post]
31 May 2014, 8:52 pm
By JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRAS “The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents. [read post]
28 May 2014, 8:08 pm
In early 2013, Snowden disclosed thousands of top-secret US government documents to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald. [read post]
26 May 2014, 3:01 pm
And he ultimately went around Greenwald entirely, approaching Laura Poitras when he grew frustrated with Greenwald’s non-responsiveness. [read post]
22 May 2014, 1:32 pm
Check out the latest from The Intercept (Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras), Data Pirates of the Carribean, on an NSA and DEA program called "SomalGet", which is part of MYSTIC. [read post]
19 May 2014, 4:56 pm
By Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras: The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas. [read post]
14 May 2014, 1:59 pm
After this trip, Greenwald and filmmaker/investigative journalist Laura Poitras facilitated the publication of a series of disclosures related to a treasure trove of secret government documents leaked by Snowden, exposing the massive extent of covert US surveillance. [read post]
8 May 2014, 10:50 am
The Nation is running excerpts from the remarks at the ceremony where Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden were awarded the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 5:00 pm
Given their prominent role in making public the previously secret documents, many feared that Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras had indictments under seal and might be detained upon arrival on American soil. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 12:55 pm
The 2014 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling was awarded Monday to Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 11:03 am
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark report in Der Spiegel, based on Snowden-leaked documents, that British intelligence service GCHQ and the NSA snooped on 122 world leaders—including private German businesses and Chancellor Angela Merkel. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 7:28 am
Recall the following statement that Edward Snowden made to the journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in June 2013 in Hong Kong: Any [NSA] analyst at any time can target anyone, any select or anywhere. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 9:15 am
Apropos of surveillance: in the Times, Charlie Savage and Laura Poitras have a piece that describes how a 2002 ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court “weakened restrictions on sharing private information about Americans[.] [read post]
