#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
Carriers Got 1M Gov’t, Police Requests for Data in 2012
Requests for customer mobile phone data from federal, state, and local authorities topped 1 million last year
Local Police Track Cellphone Data
The National Security Agency isn’t the only government entity secretly collecting data from people’s cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too
Internet Giants Demand Surveillance Reform
AOL, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple and LinkedIn to call for reforms to restore the public’s trust in the internet
NSA Tracks Billions of Cell-Phone Locations Daily
The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world
NSA Opponents Seek to Dismantle Spy Facility
Anti-NSA activists would like to turn off the water to the NSA’s $1.5 billion Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, and at other facilities around the country
Silicon Valley Nerds Seek Revenge on NSA
Google Inc. (GOOG), Facebook Inc. (FB) and Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) are fighting back against the National Security Agency by using harder-to-crack code to shield their networks and online customer data from unauthorized U.S. spying
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
Google Bombarded by Gov’t Requests on User Data
The US government is on a data-gathering spree at Google, new data from the search giant reveals
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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