Julian Assange has been effectively detained without charge since December 2010. Ecuador has stated that Assange can stay indefinitely. That doesn't bode well for taxpayers.

Guarding the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Julian Assange has claimed asylum has now cost taxpayers £9million, it has been revealed. Metropolitan Police officers have been standing outside the Knightsbridge building since the WikiLeaks founder took refuge there in June 2012 - a vigil costing £11,000 per day. The 43-year-old is wanted in Sweden after allegedly sexually assaulting two women in Stockholm in 2010.

I looked at something that I had seen going on with the world, which is that I thought there were too many unjust acts. And I wanted there to be more just acts, and fewer unjust acts. And one can ask, “What are your philosophical axioms for this?” And I say, “I do not need to consider them. This is simply my temperament. And it is an axiom because it is that way.” That avoids getting into further unhelpful philosophical discussion about why I want to do something. It is enough that I do.

​Lawyers representing the credit card processor used by WikiLeaks are suing Visa and MasterCard in the United States over the 2010 banking blockade that kept the anti-secrecy group from receiving funds.

Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange's new books offer an unsettling portrait of our unpreparedness for a truly digital world

You’re in the process of releasing a quarter-million documents of internal correspondence belonging to the U.S. State Department. Suddenly you discover that, because a journalist you've been working with has included a password for the unedited versions in a book he's publishing, the unredacted documents could hit the Web at any moment. What do you do?

Julian Assange, editor of Internet leaks website Wikileaks, told journalists he will be leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London “soon,” during a press conference held earlier today. Assange, one of the world’s most wanted information leakers, is charged with sexual assault and has been protected by the Ecuadorian government from extradition.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has suggested he will be leaving London's Ecuadorean embassy "soon" after two years' refuge but gave no more details.

A judge in Sweden has upheld an arrest warrant for the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. At a hearing in Stockholm, Judge Lena Egelin upheld the arrest warrant having heard arguments from both sides. Assange who was not at the hearing - having not left the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over two years - believes this hearing was just one part of his on-going legal battle.

Prosecutors in Sweden pursuing Julian Assange over rape allegations have rejected a demand by his lawyers to hand over new evidence and withdraw the warrant for his arrest, setting the stage in two weeks' time for the first legal battle in the case since 2012.

The National Security Agency has been recording and storing nearly all the domestic (and international) phone calls from two or more target countries as of 2013. Both the Washington Post and The Intercept (based in the US and published by eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar) have censored the name of one of the victim states, which the latter publication refers to as country "X".

Since we’ve had quite a bit of time between Snowden disclosures of NSA activities, it appears as though Wikileaks has gotten ahold of some secret NSA documents that name names as to whom has been cooperating with them. They claim that they have over 80 different companies in their strategic partnerships.

AUSTIN, Texas — Embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare onstage appearance at SXSWi on Sunday via Skype in a wide-ranging conversation about the NSA and WikiLeaks...

The UK has spent over $8 million on monitoring the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Julian Assange has been holed up for 20 months. His stay is having a knock-on effect on British taxpayers, reportedly costing them over $16,000 a day.

Swedish MPs are calling on the prosecutors in the Julian Assange sexual assault case to travel to London and question the WikiLeaks founder at the Ecuadorian embassy, where he has been taking refuge since June 2012.

Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs' Report. The TPP transnational legal regime would cover 12 countries initially and encompass 40 per cent of global GDP and one-third of world trade...

Mediastan, WikiLeaks Film (Part 1 of 3)

After Manning’s initial leaks were published, WikiLeaks' profile took the world stage. The site was subsisting on online donations from citizens around the world who were becoming increasingly interested in the idea that states should have nothing to hide.

WikiLeaks founder and journalist, Julian Assange, has marked the third year spent in detention in UK under constant threat of extradition to Sweden. On December 7, 2010 Assange was taken into custody after voluntarily attending a British police station. He spent 10 days behind bars, before being released on bail with a residence requirement at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, England.

In March of 2010, WikiLeaks was just weeks away from bursting onto the world stage with the first of its major leaks from intelligence analyst Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning: the “Collateral Murder” video showing a 2007 Apache helicopter attack that killed civilians and wounded children. Julian Assange, in Iceland, was in contact with Manning in online chats, getting more leaks and keeping his source updated on WikiLeaks’ progress.