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The World Wants to Break Up with America's Internet
Thanks to this year's NSA revelations, the world wants to break up with the United States’ internet. The only problem? It's not sure how to. But as much as other countries hate the idea, the world is stuck with it.
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David Cameron criticises the Guardian for publishing Snowden data
The Guardian knows it compromised national security when it used data leaked by ex-US intelligence worker Edward Snowden, David Cameron has said. At Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron argued that "what has happened has damaged national security". The newspaper had since effectively accepted its culpability by destroying the data when asked, he suggested.
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'The video the NSA doesn't want you to watch' debuts in NYC
A crowd of about a hundred gathered near New York City Tuesday night, Internet privacy on their minds. They’re pretty pissed about the National Security Agency. The event, hosted by activist groups Fight for the Future and Demand Progress, was focused on a short new documentary, referred to as simply “The NSA Video.”
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Online privacy is dead
It's getting harder to remain faceless online. Even far-out measures of data encryption are under attack.
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Edward Snowden: I brought no leaked NSA documents to Russia
Edward Snowden, the source of US National Security Agency leaks, has said he left all the leaked documents behind when he flew from Hong Kong to Moscow and there is no chance of them falling into the hands of Russian or Chinese authorities.
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NSA delayed anti-leak software at base where Snowden worked
The U.S. National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor Edward Snowden went to work there and downloaded tens of thousands of highly classified documents, current and former U.S. officials told Reuters.
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Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email
The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president's public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system. The news is likely to hurt ties between the US and Mexico.
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Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims
The French government has summoned the US ambassador in Paris, demanding an explanation about claims that the National Security Agency has been engaged in widespread phone surveillance of French citizens.
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Why the NSA's Defense of Mass Data Collection Makes No Sense
The U.S. intelligence community claims it's not spying on citizens until someone actually looks at the data it collects. That argument is deeply flawed.
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Venezuela moves to build its own NSA
In the eight months since the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, his inheritors have kept faith with his commitment to restricting the speech of critics. On Sept. 30, President Nicolás Maduro signed a decree establishing the “Strategic Center for Security and Protection of the Fatherland,” or CESPPA, which will “coordinate, organize, and elevate our capacity to recognize and overcome, before it happens, any plan against the country.”
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Canadians sue their own government over domestic spying
American privacy advocates aren't the only ones taking their own government to court over domestic spying programs. On Tuesday, Canadian activists announced they were suing Canada's equivalent of the National Security Agency.
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The U.S. is losing its hypocrisy advantage
The U.S.’s private behavior is often starkly at odds with its public ideals. Because the U.S. is the most powerful state in the international system, it’s often able to get away with this. The leaders of other states know that the U.S. is behaving hypocritically, but often find it easier to say nothing about it.
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Stop Watching Us: The Video
"Stop Watching Us: The Video" is directed by Brian Knappenberger (We Are Legion: The Story of the Hackivists) and produced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). It's pretty powerful, watch it now.
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The Battle for Power on the Internet
Distributed citizen groups and nimble hackers once had the edge. Now governments and corporations are catching up. Who will dominate in the decades ahead?
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12 governments that love to spy on their own people
The US is not alone. Here's just a partial list of the other governments that have been caught spying on its own citizens.
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Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday disputed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) claim that the government's phone record collection program is not "surveillance."
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The NSA Website Is Down
The National Security Agency's website, nsa.gov, has been down the better part of the afternoon, were they attacked?
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WikiLeaks launches site for Edward Snowden's legal defense
Wikileaks has set up a new website, Free Snowden, to collect money to defend National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The site allows for donations by credit card, PayPal, bank transfer, WePay payment, and virtual currencies Bitcoin and Litecoin.
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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. The agency positioned itself to collect from among millions of accounts, many belonging to Americans.
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US 'spied on Vatican in run-up to conclave'
The US National Security Agency allegedly eavesdropped on cardinals before the conclave in March to elect a new pope, Italian weekly magazine Panorama claimed on Wednesday.
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