#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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Why Journalists Fear The Obama Administration

Due to Obama’s war on journalism and whistleblowing, reporters are preferring to meet sources one-on-one, in-person rather than by any electronic means

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NSA Broke Privacy Laws Thousands of Times Annually

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents

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Privacy Groups, Civil Liberties Coalitions Sue NSA Over Mass Spying

Rights activists, church leaders and drug and gun rights advocates found common ground and filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the federal government to halt a vast National Security Agency electronic surveillance program

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Microsoft Says U.S. Constitution Suffering Under NSA Secrecy

Microsoft has written to the US attorney general, Eric Holder, calling on him to “personally take action” to permit the software giant and others to share more information about the way they handle national security requests for customer data

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Untallied: State Dept Travels on Taxpayer Dime

The State Department is one of five Cabinet offices that have yet to fully comply with requests under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose the details and expenses of official travel more than a year after they were filed

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Google Uses First Amendment to Challenge U.S. Gov’t

Google has asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to lift a gag order, saying it has the constitutional right to clear its name by discussing government data requests

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The Jones Report Pt. 2: Fear Not, Stand Up!

As a journalist, it’s your sworn oath to seek the truth and to bring it out into the open, no matter how grim the details are, or how much you don’t believe in it. You are morally obligated to do so. It’s the core, fundamental principle of what we do, it’s what keeps a democracy a democracy. It is our duty to be transparent, accountable, and open

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Revolt Of The Press

Attorney General Eric Holder’s plans to sit down with media representatives to discuss guidelines for handling investigations into leaks to the news media have run into trouble

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