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Canada 'spied on airport travellers'
Canada's electronic spy agency collected data from travellers passing through a major airport, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reports.
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Dear America, I Saw You Naked
The tale of an ex-TSA agent
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How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower
He was politically conservative, a gun owner, a geek – and the man behind the biggest intelligence leak in history. In this exclusive extract from his new book, Luke Harding looks at Edward Snowden's journey from patriot to America's most wanted
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‘Welcome to the United States of paranoia’
Between the NSA’s power and the IRS’s revenge, how can Americans not be worried about the opinions they express?
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U.S. Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview The U.S. Government Doesn’t Want You to See
This past Sunday evening former NSA contractor Edward Snowden sat down for an interview with German television network ARD. The interview has been intentional blocked from the US public, with virtually no major broadcast news outlets covering this story. In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube.
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Hackers Sue German Government Over NSA Spying
A group of computer hackers and human rights campaigners in Germany announced Monday that they are suing their government for allegedly breaking the law by aiding foreign spies.
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Feds: NSA ‘Probably’ Spies on Members of Congress
The National Security Agency "probably" collects phone records of members of Congress and their staffs, a senior Justice Department official conceded Tuesday. The admission is hardly surprising, but expect lawmakers to feign outrage anyway.
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A Former CIA Whistleblower Has Some Harsh Words For Edward Snowden
A former CIA agent who was punished for publishing a memoir in the 1970s about intelligence failures in the Vietnam war has come down hard against former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Frank Snepp, who served at the U.S. embassy in Saigon for five years, wrote in the Los Angeles Times that Snowden " may have sparked an important national privacy debate, but he did so through reprehensible actions that harmed national security."
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NSA Targeted Gerhard Schröder's Mobile Phone
It wasn't only Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone that was on the NSA's target list. New German media reports claim the US spy agency also tapped Gerhard Schröder's phone calls in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. Edward Snowden appeared to come very close to announcing the news himself.
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FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List
The government contested a former Stanford University student’s assertion that she was wrongly placed on a no-fly list for seven years in court despite knowing an FBI official put her on the list by mistake because he checked the “wrong boxes” on a form, a federal judge wrote today.
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The Internet is rising up in protest on February 11th
Thousands of websites are planning a massive online protest against surveillance on February 11th.
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The Day We Fight Back: can an internet protest stop the NSA?
On January 18th, 2012, the world’s free encyclopedia went dark. "Imagine a world without free knowledge," said a black splash page, warning users of a bill that could "fatally damage the free and open internet" and urging them to contact Congress. The bill was SOPA, a widely reviled piece of anti-piracy legislation, and Wikipedia wasn’t alone: Reddit, Google, and other huge sites either disabled access or hosted banners in protest. What happened next has become a touchstone for internet activist
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What Cold War CIA Interrogators Learned from the Nazis
At a secret black site in the years after the end of WWII, CIA and US intelligence operatives tested LSD and other interrogation techniques on captured Soviet spies—all with the help of former Nazi scientists.
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Sen Rand Paul sues President Obama over NSA call surveillance
US Senator Rand Paul has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration and the National Security Agency seeking to halt the NSA's vast data-surveillance program.
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Ron Paul Launches Snowden Clemency Petition
Today, it was reported that former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) launched a petition calling for NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden to be granted clemency. On the page on the Ron Paul Channel’s website where visitors can sign the petition
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Utah representative wants to shut off water to NSA facility
Utah state Rep. Marc Roberts is drafting a bill that would cut off state water to the National Security Agency's massive data storage warehouse. CBS News' John Blackstone reports.
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Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm
The list of those caught up in the global surveillance net cast by the National Security Agency and its overseas partners, from social media users to foreign heads of state, now includes another entry: American lawyers. A top-secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States.
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Australia Faces New Spying Claims but Abbott Says Information for Protection Only
Australia faced with fresh allegations of spying that threaten an already tense relationship with Indonesia Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Sunday information gathered by its spy agency as part of ordinary operations isn't used to the detriment of other countries or for commercial purposes. "We use it for the benefit of our friends. We use it to uphold our values. We use it to protect our citizens and the citizens of other countries," Mr. Abbott said.
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Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters
Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.
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Snowden’s lawyer says she was ‘interrogated and harassed’ at London airport
An attorney for Edward Snowden says she was questioned by officials at London's Heathrow Airport over her relationship to the whistleblower.
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