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Secret files show MI5 spying on academics
Britain's domestic spying apparatus, the MI5, has been spying on a number of prominent academics for decades, newly declassified documents show
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Writing The Snowden Files: ‘The paragraph began to self-delete’
Was it the NSA? GCHQ? A Russian hacker? Who was secretly reading his book on Snowden while he wrote it, wonders Luke Harding One day last summer – a short while after Edward Snowden revealed
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Edward Snowden: NSA Used Angry Birds, Other Apps to Track People
Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds and a host of other apps installed on smartphones across the globe. The documents, published Monday
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Britain’s War On Press Freedom
Press freedom is too important to lose. The right to express thoughts and opinions freely is fundamental. Without it all others are at risk. It's being assaulted in America. It's at risk in Britain. Both
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The secret state is just itching to gag the press
It's the readers I feel sorry for. How, one wonders, are those who follow Britain's noisiest newspapers of the right to make sense of what they have been told? For nearly a year the
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Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
The US government has paid at least £100m to the UK spy agency GCHQ over the last three years to secure access to and influence over Britain's intelligence gathering programmes. The top secret payments are
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