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Germany Nixing Verizon Contract Highlights Economic Impact Of US Spying
The German government announced it was pulling its contract with Verizon due to fears the Internet provider was allowing U.S. agencies to spy on the government’s communications, the Associated Press…
Here’s How UK Spy Agencies Justify Snooping On Brits’ Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Use
Some new details about UK government policy regarding mass surveillance of domestic Internet users have emerged today, in a witness statement made by Charles Blandford Farr, Director General of the…
NSA Reportedly Intercepts And Alters Routers And Servers Exported From U.S. To Facilitate Surveillance
A new report from NSA leak story breaker Glenn Greenwald claims the U.S.-based National Security Agency actually intercepts and alters routers and server hardware exported from the U.S. to implant…
Online Bill Of Rights Needed To Protect Democracy, Says Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who pioneered the interconnected information management system we now know colloquially as the Web (he called it the World Wide Web), has called for an online…
Watch Edward Snowden’s SXSW Interview
Did you miss the chat between Edward Snowden and the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and Christopher Soghoian? The good news is that you can watch the entire thing now. Bad news: The currently available…
Edward Snowden is set to give his SXSW talk at 12:00 EDT. Thanks to the Texas Tribune, the interview will also be live streamed and the video is embedded below.…
UK Spy Agency Collected Webcam Images From Yahoo Users With The Help Of NSA, Report Says
In yet another stunning revelation about digital espionage (though how stunned can we continue to be at this point), The Guardian reports that British surveillance organization GCHQ ran a program…
Zuckerberg: Snowden NSA Revelations Have Brought The Tech Industry Closer
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of the U.S. government’s surveillance dragnet of Internet users has had one positive impact, according to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: it’s made rivals…
Rep. Peter King: Security Reforms At The NSA Will Prevent Future Snowdens
Following a stinging report in the New York Times explaining how Edward Snowden was able to collect his trove of top-secret government documents, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y) this morning took to…
The Internet Can’t Have Their Bieber Cake And Justice For Snowden, Too
The Internet desperately wants the White House to do two things: pardon whistleblower Edward Snowden and to deport man-boy pop icon, Justin Bieber. Today, a petition to deport the Biebs…
The Republican National Committee Blasts The NSA’s “Dragnet” Surveillance
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has passed a resolution condemning the NSA’s mass surveillance, pushing back heavily on the actions of the security apparatus of the U.S. The resolution contains…
Snowden Answers Our Burning Data Collection Question: What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is answering the Internet’s burning questions. Surprisingly, he was even gracious enough to answer my question: “What’s the worst and most realistic harm from…
European Civil Liberties Committee Votes To Ask Snowden To Contribute To Its NSA Surveillance Inquiry
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will be invited to contribute to a European Parliamentary committee’s ongoing inquiry into the U.S. NSA surveillance program.
Post-Snowden, European Commission Sets Out Actions Needed To Restore Trust In E.U.-U.S. Data Flows
The European Commission has today detailed the actions it believes are required to restore trust in data-sharing agreements between the European Union and the U.S. following revelations of surveillance dragnets…
NSA Has 50,000 ‘Digital Sleeper Agents’ Via Computer Malware, Says Latest Snowden Leak
Sleeper agents are among the most sinister spy assets: they lie in wait, wolves in sheep’s clothing, and then deliver a critical blow when activated. The NSA has 50,000 of…
NSA Infiltrates Google And Yahoo Networks, Report Says
The National Security Agency has secretly taped the networks of Google and Yahoo to monitor real-time communication, according to newly revealed documents from whistleblower, Edward Snowden [PDF]. “The National Security…
Post-Snowden, U.K. Parliamentary Committee To Probe Individual Privacy Vs. National Security
A U.K. parliamentary committee has widened the scope of a planned inquiry into the legislative framework governing national intelligence agencies’ access to private information, triggered by the PRISM revelations in…
Lavabit Founder Details Government Surveillance Of Secure Email While Documents Disclose Epic Trolling Of Feds
Ladar Levison, founder of secure email provider Lavabit, has posted a Facebook message detailing his current situation in regards to the shutdown of the service. “I simply couldn’t operate Lavabit…
Groklaw Shuts Down As The Post-Snowden Chilling Effect Continues
Groklaw, a decade-old law blog run by Pamela Jones, has shut down citing the danger of increased email scrutiny. “The owner of Lavabit tells us that he’s stopped using email…
Why Ladar Levison Shuttered Encrypted Email Service Lavabit In The Face Of Government Pressure
Today Ladar Levison, owner of the now-shuttered Lavabit email service, spoke to Democracy Now about his decision to close his company. In the interview, he expressed support of leaker Edward…
U.S. To Russia: We Won’t Kill Or Torture Snowden
The U.S. has pledged not to seek the death penalty for NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden. To persuade the Minister of Justice to give up Snowden, it appears that Eric Holder had…
NSA Whistleblower Snowden Requests Asylum In Ecuador After Leaving Hong Kong And Travelling To Russia
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program and a number of similar government initiatives over the course of the last few weeks, has left Hong Kong…
Snowden Invited To Iceland By Founder Of Payment Provider DataCell
Reuters is reporting that Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson, founder of colocation service Datacell, is offering to fly NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden from Hong Kong to Reykjavik in a private jet should…
