#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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Malala to Obama: Drones Fuel Terrorism

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama met in the Oval Office Friday with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakastani girl who was shot in the head on her school bus by Taliban gunmen

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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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NSA Surveillance Far Beyond Orwell’s Imagination

The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984

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Project Lists People Killed by U.S. Drones in Pakistan

US drone strikes that the CIA claims target only al-Qaeda militants have killed at least 400 civilians in Pakistan over the past decade. That’s according to “Naming the Dead,” a new project that aims to identify and collect data on those killed by drones

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Fearing the NSA’s Surveillance State

“Dear NSA/CSS family,” begins a Sept. 13, 2013, letter to employees and “extended family” of the nation’s largest spy agency from NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the boss of the family (CSS stands for Central Security Service, an NSA subagency)

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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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NSA Intentionally Abused Spying Powers

National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade

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Government Pushes for Facial Recognition Surveillance

The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces

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The Guardian Outsmarts British Government

Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian editor-in-chief, has said that the destruction of computer hard drives containing information provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden allowed the paper to continue reporting on the revelations

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