#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
Internet Giants Demand Surveillance Reform
AOL, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple and LinkedIn to call for reforms to restore the public’s trust in the internet
NSA Opponents Seek to Dismantle Spy Facility
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
The NSA’s Dirty Tricks Revealed
The NSA has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others
Thankful for Those Struggling to Limit the NSA
On Monday the Supreme Court, ruling on an emergency petition, declined to do the right thing and hear a case challenging the massive government surveillance of Americans
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
NSA Overwhelmed with FOIA Requests
Fueled by the Edward Snowden scandal, more Americans than ever are asking the NSA if their personal life is being spied on
CIA Secretly Collects Global Records of Financial Data
The CIA is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union — including transactions into and out of the US
The Last Patriots in Congress
Worse, the NSA has cloaked its operations behind such a thick cloud of secrecy that even if the NSA promised reforms, we would lack the ability to verify them
Google Bombarded by Gov’t Requests on User Data
The US government is on a data-gathering spree at Google, new data from the search giant reveals
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