#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
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
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
All Seeing, All Hearing, All Knowing…
From thousands of classified documents, the National Security Agency emerges as an electronic omnivore of staggering capabilities, eavesdropping and hacking its way around the world to strip governments and other targets of their secrets
The NSA is Stalking Your Friends
The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world
As The Surveillance State Grows, So Do Fears
The new system, scheduled to begin next summer, is the latest example of how cities are compiling and processing large amounts of information, known as big data, for routine law enforcement
Activists Protest Utah’s NSA Spy Center
An organization opposed to surveillance by the National Security Agency has been approved to “adopt” the section of highway running past the Utah Data Center
E.U. to Suspend U.S. Data Sharing
The European Union has threatened to suspend or even terminate the crucial EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Program
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