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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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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Failed Intimidation…

The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National SecurityAgency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London’s Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro

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Germany Cuts Surveillance Pact With U.S., U.K.

Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain on Friday in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries’ alleged electronic eavesdropping operations

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Snowstorm: Spying at the G20 Summit

Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian

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