Edward Snowden

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The NSA Can Get You Offline, Too -- With Radio Waves

Sara Morrison | Nextgov | January 15, 2014

Remember how we thought/hoped that keeping our computer offline would protect us from NSA snooping? Well, it won't! According to the New York Times' latest report from the Snowden files, the NSA has developed technology (under the Quantum code name, also used for those malware attacks) that can access computers through radio waves. Read More »

The NSA Is Commandeering The Internet

Bruce Schneier | The Atlantic | August 12, 2013

Technology companies have to fight for their users, or they'll eventually lose them. Read More »

The NSA-Reform Paradox: Stop Domestic Spying, Get More Security

Bruce Schneier | The Atlantic | September 11, 2013

The nation can survive the occasional terrorist attack, but our freedoms can't survive an invulnerable leader like Keith Alexander operating within inadequate constraints. Read More »

The Rise Of Medical Identity Theft

Michael Ollove | The Pew | February 7, 2014

If modern technology has ushered in a plague of identity theft, one particular strain of the disease has emerged as most virulent: medical identity theft. Read More »

The Staggering Power Of NSA Systems Administrators

Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic | August 27, 2013

Reflections on the Ex-PFC Wintergreens of the national-security state Read More »

The Ultimate Goal Of The NSA Is Total Population Control

Antony Loewenstein | The Guardian | July 10, 2014

At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality'...

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The White House Big Data Report: The Good, The Bad, And The Missing

Jeremy Gillula and Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman | Electronic Frontier Foundation | May 4, 2014

Last week, the White House released its report on big data and its privacy implications, the result of a 90-day study commissioned by President Obama during his January 17 speech on NSA surveillance reforms. Now that we’ve had a chance to read the report we’d like to share our thoughts on what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we thought was missing...

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Time For Internet Engineers To Fight Back Against The “Surveillance Internet”

David Talbot | MIT Technology Review | November 6, 2013

Amid torrent of revelations that the NSA finds mass surveillance easy, the IETF ponders how to harden the Internet. Read More »

Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time

Jon Evans | TechCrunch | June 29, 2013

Everyone is worried about the wrong things. Since Edward Snowden exposed the incipient NSA panopticon, the civil libertarians are worried that their Internet conversations and phone metadata are being tracked; the national-security conservatives claim to be worried that terrorists will start hiding their tracks; but both sides should really be worried about different things entirely. Read More »

Unnecessary And Disproportionate: How The NSA Violates International Human Rights Standards

David Greene and Katitza Rodriguez | Electronic Frontier Foundation | May 28, 2014

Even before Ed Snowden leaked his first document, human rights lawyers and activists were concerned about law enforcement and intelligence agencies spying on the digital world. One of the tools developed to tackle those concerns was the development of the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance (the “Necessary and Proportionate Principles”)...

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UPDATE 1-Apple, Google, Dozens Of Others Urge U.S. Surveillance Disclosures

Staff Writer | Reuters | July 19, 2013

Dozens of companies, non-profits and trade organizations including Apple Inc, Google Inc and Facebook Inc sent a letter on Thursday pushing the Obama administration and Congress for more disclosures on the government's national security-related requests for user data. Read More »

US Firms Worry Edward Snowden Is Wrecking Their Business, But The Patriot Act Was Already Doing That

Leo Mirani | Quartz | August 7, 2013

Shortly after a meeting of an EU-sponsored program to push European cloud-computing capabilities in Estonia last month, a high-ranking EC official noted that the biggest losers from Edward Snowden’s revelation about US surveillance would be US businesses: Read More »

What Transparency Reports Don't Tell Us

Ryan Budish | The Atlantic | December 19, 2013

These reports give us a lot of numbers, but very little information about how hard these companies fight on the behalf of users. Read More »

What Your Email Metadata Told The NSA About You

Rebecca Greenfield | The Atlantic Wire | June 27, 2013

President Obama said "nobody is listening to your telephone calls," even though the National Security Agency could actually track you from cellphone metadata. Well, the latest from the Edward Snowden leaks shows [the following]. Read More »

Why Do So Many American ‘Journalists’ Appear To Hate Actual Journalism?

Nicole Hemmer | The Conversation | July 7, 2013

The question was directed at Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who broke the story of NSA surveillance using material provided by on-the-lam leaker Edward Snowden. The person grilling Greenwald wasn’t a government prosecutor [...]. Read More »