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#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

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Requests for customer mobile phone data from federal, state, and local authorities topped 1 million last year

Local Police Track Cellphone Data

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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

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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

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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

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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

U.K. Tries to Silence The Guardian

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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