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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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New Snowden Docs Confirm NSA’s Role in Drone Killings
While the world is rightly concerned about the wholesale dragnet spying of citizens across the planet, another program has emerged which shows how "intelligence" gathered by the National Security Agency (NSA) is being used
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Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? It’s one of the mysteries yet unanswered by the Edward Snowden
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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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Bill Gates Says Government Spying Isn’t Always Bad
Bill Gates has strong opinions when it comes to world poverty, but the tech titan-turned-philanthropist takes the middle ground on government spying. Speaking with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos in an interview set to air on Tuesday,
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President Obama’s NSA ‘ruse’
We were all looking at the president’s speech the wrong way. It was billed as a major speech on reform to the nation’s intelligence programs. But although some genuine reforms were introduced, the speech really
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Snowden to ask Russian police for protection after US threats – lawyer
NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, will ask Russian law enforcers to protect him, his lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, has said. The former NSA contractor is concerned about his safety after seeing death threats coming from the
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NSA Put Software In 100,000 Computers Worldwide
A new report has revealed that the US National Security Agency has illegally implemented software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world to spy on them. The software enables the US spy agency to conduct
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The NSA reportedly collects a ‘goldmine’ of data from nearly 200 million texts daily
The U.S. National Security Agency may be storing your text messages. The data-hungry intelligence agency collects and stores nearly 200 million text messages each day in an “untargeted” global sweep, report the Guardian and the
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Shock poll: 72% of Americans see Big Government as greatest threat to their future
It is not a survey that bodes well for either the legitimacy of our leaders or, quite possibly, the future of our country. Five years into the "hope and change" regime of Barack Obama -
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Not Socially Acceptable: NSA boss video ‘most hated’ on YouTube in 2013?
A YouTube footage in which NSA boss Keith Alexander tries “to set the record straight” on the agency’s spying antics has nosedived. The half-hour interview activated a trend of critique from users, branding it
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NSA statement does not deny ‘spying’ on members of Congress
The Nationwide Security Agency on Saturday launched a argument in response to concerns from a senator about whether it “has spied, or is … currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected
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Year in Pictures: Moving Images of 2013
The following images tell the story of the past 365 days’ most compelling events, capturing happenstance moments and monumental occurrences all over the globe. More than ever, photography has become the predominant means for
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Given that the Authorities Oppose Everything the Founding Fathers Fought For, Is This Still America?
The Founding Fathers started the Revolutionary War because England was spying on the colonists in the exact same way that the NSA is spying on modern Americans. Indeed, Americans are the most spied
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10 Predictions For 2014
As this year comes to a close it is once again time to reflect, learn from events, and plan for a new year with some predictions. Without question, 2013 was not the best year for
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Video: A Christmas Message from NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who prompted a worldwide debate when he leaked a cache of top secret documents about US and UK spying, has recorded a Christmas Day television message in which he calls
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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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US National Security Agency (NSA) ‘spies on US for Israel’
An American company bids on a military project in Africa. It finds its prime competitor is an Israeli company that submitted not just a superficially identical proposal but the same typographical and syntax errors
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Doomsday Secret Cache Freaks Out NSA Spooks: Edward Snowden Does It Again!
Intelligence officials in both the United States and the UK are ‘freaking out’ about Edward Snowden’s ‘doomsday cache’ of secrets that they are afraid may soon be released as shared from Inagist and the
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Americans’ personal data shared with CIA, IRS, others in security probe
U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S.
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