#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
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
The Snowden Effect
Results of a Harris Poll released this morning show four out of five people have changed the privacy settings of their social media accounts, and most have made changes in the last six months
U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation From Surveillance State
Did the Obama Administration ever spy on Mitt Romney during the recent presidential contest?
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)
Lawless and Destructive
When Edward Snowden first revealed the spying the NSA has been conducting on what was then thought to be only customers of Verizon, the government was embarrassed, but it reluctantly acknowledged that Snowden revealed a truth
NSA Calls Secret Emergency Briefing to Protect its Powers
The National Security Agency called for a “top secret” meeting with members of the House on Tuesday to lobby against the first House amendment to challenge the agency’s authority to cull broad swaths of communications data
How the Surveillance State is Affecting Internet Users
News of the U.S. government’s secret surveillance programs that targeted phone records but also information transmitted on the Internet has done more than spark a debate about privacy
NSA Director to Face The Senate
As pressure mounts for the intelligence community to curb its surveillance activities or at least make them more transparent, a key National Security Agency official will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday
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