Crowds gathered Thursday at the University of the District of Columbia law school for a lecture given by Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.
In a move likely to re-ignite public debate in America over electronic spying, Republicans have introduced a bill in the Senate to extend a controversial law empowering the government’s bulk collection of U.S. telephone records.
Description: “Among all of the NSA hacking operations exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden over the last two years, one in particular has stood out for its sophistication and stealthiness. Known as Quantum Insert, the man-on-the-side hacking technique has been used to great effect since 2005 by the NSA and its partner…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange investigates the book behind Snowden,Oliver Stone’s forthcoming film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Nicolas Cage, Scott Eastwood and Zachary Quinto. According to leaked Sony emails, movie rights for the book were bought for $700,000.
“We’re working on a story which suggests your organisation may have been the victim of surveillance by an intelligence agency….”
Is there any point in worrying about privacy, when in this hyper-connected age we spend so much of our time creating and sharing data with others? Either shared through social media or given to advertisers in exchange for the free services we use, it almost seems absurd to argue for…
Twitter has updated its privacy policy, creating a two-lane service that treats US and non-US users differently. If you live in the US, your account is controlled by San Francisco-based Twitter Inc, but if you’re elsewhere in the world (anywhere else) it’s handled by Twitter International Company in Dublin, Ireland….
Edward Snowden, famous for leaking classified information about the US government and former NSA contractor, could be looking to Iceland for citizenship status.
If American whistleblower Edward Snowden were French, he would have had a good chance of remaining a free man — despite having leaked thousands of classified intelligence documents.
Michael Chertoff, co-author of the Patriot Act, a set of laws that provided the US government with broad surveillance powers in the wake of 9/11, is unashamedly proud of what he built.
