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Obama's NSA State of the Union by Mark Fiore
- Category: Comic Strip
- Created: 10 February 2014
I can't say that I had very high hopes for Obama's NSA reforms. (Hello, Gitmo?) The man can still give a good speech, though, and make me feel like everything is going to be alright. Unfortunately, what really matters is the policy and what actually happens. After his recent announcement about reforming surveillance procedures, bulk collection of everyone's communication data will still occur.
Edward Snowden tells German TV that NSA is involved in industrial espionage
- Category: News
- Created: 27 January 2014
The National Security Agency is involved in industrial espionage and will take intelligence regardless of its value to national security, the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has told a German television network.
America’s Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead
- Category: News
- Created: 17 January 2014
Edward Snowden has made some dangerous enemies. As the American intelligence community struggles to contain the public damage done by the former National Security Agency contractor’s revelations of mass domestic spying, intelligence operators have continued to seethe in very personal terms against the 30-year-old whistle-blower.
Once again, it's time to check in on Parallel Earth...
- Category: Comic Strip
- Created: 17 November 2013
Lavabit: How One Company Refused to Give FBI "Unrestricted" Access to Emails of 400,000 Customers
- Category: Video
- Created: 09 October 2013
In August, Lavabit became the first technology firm to shut down rather than disclose information to the U.S. government. Lavabit owner Ladar Levison closed his encrypted email company after refusing to comply with a government effort to tap his customers' information. It is now been confirmed the FBI was targeting National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who used Lavabit's services. But Levison says that instead of just targeting Snowden, the government effectively wanted access to the accounts of 400,000 other Lavabit customers.
The Work of a Generation by Edward Snowden
- Category: News
- Created: 01 October 2013
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's words were entered as testimony at the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee in Brussels on Monday.
The Banality of Systemic Evil
- Category: Opinion
- Created: 15 September 2013
"Clearly, there is a moral principle at work in the actions of the leakers, whistle-blowers and hacktivists and those who support them. I would also argue that that moral principle has been clearly articulated, and it may just save us from a dystopian future."
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
- Category: News
- Created: 10 September 2013
• Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis
• Only official US government communications protected
• Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy
• Read the NSA and Israel's 'memorandum of understanding'
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
- Category: News
- Created: 14 August 2013
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
The Independent is attributing an illegal leak that endangers British intelligence workers abroad to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- Category: News
- Created: 22 August 2013
The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from "documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden" - disclosing that "Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence agencies." This is the first time the Independent has published any revelations purportedly from the NSA documents, and it's the type of disclosure which journalists working directly with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have thus far avoided.