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Reporters who broke Snowden story return to U.S. for first time
Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the U.S. journalists who reported on spy agency analyst Edward Snowden's leaks exposing mass government surveillance, returned to the United States on Friday for the first time since revealing the programs in 2013.
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FBI to have 52 million photos in its NGI face recognition database by next year
Database will include non-criminal photos as well as mugshots. New documents released by the FBI show that the Bureau is well on its way toward its goal of a fully operational face recognition database by this summer.
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Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA
When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications. But this month, we learned that Snowden used another technology to keep his communications out of the NSA's prying eyes. It's called Tails. And naturally, nobody knows exactly who created it.
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Jack Blue: Blue Moon secrets
A spy for the government is chased down by a secret organization and finds himself in a sticky situation.
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Sorry Snowden, Putin Lied to You About His Surveillance State—And Made You a Pawn of It
In a staged encounter on Russian television, the NSA whistleblower asks Putin if the Kremlin’s surveillance is as bad as Washington’s. Putin, lying with a smile, says no.
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Edward Snowden defends decision to question Vladimir Putin on surveillance
Edward Snowden has defended his decision to appear on live Russian television, insisting his question to Vladimir Putin on mass surveillance was designed to hold the Russian president accountable and not, as critics have suggested, an act of compliant propaganda.
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Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City
A sergeant in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department compared the experiment to Big Brother, even though he went ahead with it willingly. Is your city next?
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Hillary Clinton Blasts Edward Snowden for Fleeing to Russia and China
Hillary Clinton didn't have to directly deal with Edward Snowden's leaks when she was secretary of state. Clinton had already stepped down from her post by the time the Guardian published its first revelations on the expansive scope of spying by the National Security Agency.
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Snowden Speaks: A Vanity Fair Special Report
Whether hero or traitor, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is the most important whistle-blower of modern times, one whose disclosures will reverberate for decades to come. With extensive input from Snowden himself, Suzanna Andrews, Bryan Burrough, and Sarah Ellison have the spy-novel-worthy tale of how a geeky dropout from the Maryland suburbs found himself alone and terrified in a Hong Kong hotel room, spilling America’s most carefully guarded secrets to the world.
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Mathematicians, It’s Time to Reconsider Working for the NSA
For the past 10 months, a major international scandal has engulfed some of the world's largest employers of mathematicians. These organizations stand accused of law-breaking on an industrial scale and are now the object of widespread outrage. How has the mathematics community responded? Largely by ignoring it.
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The FBI's Massive Facial Recognition Database Raises Concern
Facial recognition technology isn’t yet sophisticated enough to identify people accurately — something which most technology watchers cite as a reason not to be overly concerned, yet, about its privacy implications.
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Snowden to reveal secrets of Arab dictators
According to the Al-Arab Al-Yawm website, sources close to Snowden's Arabic translation team revealed that the upcoming leaks will have to do with what Arab rulers used to tell Americans behind closed doors and agreements with the CIA.
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Emoji: The ultimate NSA-proof method of communication
Chances are that the NSA can't tell which emoji you've been using.
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Edward Snowden: Entire Populations Now Live Under Constant Surveillance
Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence contractor who has been leaking information about government data collection programs, said Friday before a debate on state surveillance that entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance.
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Leaked Emails Show Google Secretly Met With The NSA
The series of emails obtained by Al Jazeera clearly indicate that the relationship between Google and the National Security Agency (NSA) was far cozier than anyone thought. This revelation questions not only the reputation of the largest Internet giant, but also the privacy and security of every individual.
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White House reportedly asking for legal immunity for companies that hand over data
The White House reportedly is asking lawmakers working on reforms of the National Security Agency to offer legal immunity for telecommunications companies that hand over customer data to the government.
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'We Kill People Based on Metadata'
Supporters of the National Security Agency inevitably defend its sweeping collection of phone and Internet records on the ground that it is only collecting so-called “metadata”—who you call, when you call, how long you talk. Since this does not include the actual content of the communications, the threat to privacy is said to be negligible. That argument is profoundly misleading.
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The NSA secretly backdoors US-made internet routers before shipping
The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas – even though the US government has warned against using Chinese technology for the same reasons.
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United States of Secrets
How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?
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Snowden Is The Kind of Guy I Used to Recruit—in Russia
In his new book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald tells how Edward Snowden once confided to him, “with a hint of embarrassment,” how much he had learned from playing video games. In the black-and-white world of video games, “the protagonist is often an ordinary person, who finds himself faced with grave injustices from powerful forces.
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