Amnesty Sues U.K. Intelligence Over Surveillance

Human rights organization Amnesty International has declared it will take legal action against British security services. Amnesty claims its calls have been intercepted by UK intelligence agencies

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U.K. Tries to Silence The Guardian

British police have launched an investigation into whether the Guardian committed “potential” terrorism offenses by publishing the incriminating NSA and GCHQ documents leaked earlier this year by Edward Snowden

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The Guardian Will Not Be Intimidated

The editor of the Guardian said his newspaper has published just 1% of the material it received from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden

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U.K. Press Freedom Under Threat

Britain has a long tradition of a free, inquisitive press. That freedom, so essential to democratic accountability, is being challenged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government

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Internet Founders Criticize The NSA

The inventor of the world wide web has criticised America’s National Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ for weakening online security by breaking the encryptions that guard data privacy for millions of computer users around the world

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Eroding Freedom

Seventy of the world’s leading human rights organisations have written to David Cameron to warn that the government’s reaction to the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is leading to an erosion of fundamental rights and freedoms in the UK

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NSA Surveillance Far Beyond Orwell’s Imagination

The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984

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The Guardian Outsmarts British Government

Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian editor-in-chief, has said that the destruction of computer hard drives containing information provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden allowed the paper to continue reporting on the revelations

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White House Knew of Heathrow Detention in Advance

The White House was given advance notice of the British government’s plans to detain the partner of the Guardian reporter who has written a series of high-profile stories about U.S. surveillance practices

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U.K. Forced The Guardian to Destroy Copy of Snowden Files

The editor of the Guardian, a major outlet for revelations based on leaks from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the British government threatened legal action against the newspaper unless it either destroyed the classified documents or handed them back to British authorities

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