#INN’s 2013 Person of the Year: Edward Snowden

He pulled off the year’s most spectacular heist. Exiled from his country, the 30-year-old computer whiz has become the doomsayer of the information age

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Corporations Spying on Nonprofits

Corporations are increasingly spying on nonprofit groups they view as potential threats with little fear of retribution

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U.S. Drone Strikes Islamic Seminary in Pakistan

A suspected U.S. drone targeted an Islamic seminary early Thursday in northwest Pakistan, killing six people in an attack likely to inflame tensions over the CIA drone campaign

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Thankful for Those Struggling to Limit the NSA

On Monday the Supreme Court, ruling on an emergency petition, declined to do the right thing and hear a case challenging the massive government surveillance of Americans

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CIA Secretly Collects Global Records of Financial Data

The CIA is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union — including transactions into and out of the US

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Americans’ Personal Data Shared with CIA, IRS

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. government

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C.I.A. Pays AT&T for Call Data

The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company’s vast database of phone records

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Project Lists People Killed by U.S. Drones in Pakistan

US drone strikes that the CIA claims target only al-Qaeda militants have killed at least 400 civilians in Pakistan over the past decade. That’s according to “Naming the Dead,” a new project that aims to identify and collect data on those killed by drones

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Fearing the NSA’s Surveillance State

“Dear NSA/CSS family,” begins a Sept. 13, 2013, letter to employees and “extended family” of the nation’s largest spy agency from NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the boss of the family (CSS stands for Central Security Service, an NSA subagency)

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Record Poverty in America

During the four years that marked President Barack Obama’s first term in office, the real median income of American households dropped by $2,627 and the number of people on poverty increased by approximately 6,667,000

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