#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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WikiLeaks Publishes Secret Trade Agreement

Details of a highly secretive, multi-national trade agreement long in works have been published by WikiLeaks

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Kerry to Sign ‘Gun-Grabbing’ U.N. Treaty

Secretary of State John Kerry will sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty on Wednesday, the State Department confirmed, setting up a Senate showdown over an international agreement many in Congress believe would usurp the Second Amendment

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Syria Accuses Kerry of Disregarding U.N., Lying

Syria on Tuesday said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was lying when he stated there was “undeniable” evidence of a large-scale chemical attack likely launched by Damascus, accusing him of disregarding the work of U.N. investigators

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Governments Demanded Data on Thousands of Facebook Users

Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States

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America’s New Patriots

The violation of civil liberties in the name of security has had a profound impact on those who came of age after 9/11

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Electronics Can Be Searched Based on Hunches

U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, according to an internal Homeland Security Department study

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‘Illegal we do immediately; unconstitutional takes a little longer’ - Former U.S. Secretary of State

WikiLeaks has published the ‘Kissinger Cables’: its largest public release of documents in nearly a year, totaling some 1.7 million classified files, including information on the US’s secret diplomatic history

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A Bipartisan Opposition to Domestic Drones

Drones are wildly popular on the battlefield. Now they can claim victory elsewhere. The use of drones within U.S. borders—in car chases, to monitor wildfires, or for simple surveillance—is uniting political parties and people more often at odds

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The War on Public Information…

WikiLeaks said that recently deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz assisted the organization, was in contact with Julian Assange, and may have been one of the organization’s sources

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