#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
IRS Uses Google Maps to Spy on Taxpayers
Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are using Google Maps as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations
Carriers Got 1M Gov’t, Police Requests for Data in 2012
Requests for customer mobile phone data from federal, state, and local authorities topped 1 million last year
Local Police Track Cellphone Data
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
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
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 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
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
Fiber-Optic Cables
People knowledgeable about Google and Yahoo’s infrastructure say they believe that government spies bypassed the big Internet companies and hit them at a weak spot
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