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Edward Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Two Norwegian politicians say the NSA whistleblower's actions have led to a more stable and peaceful world order.
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Mississippi Is 10th State to Consider Legislation to Ban Cooperation with NSA
With the introduction of the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, Mississippi became the tenth state in the country to consider legislation to make life difficult for the NSA’s ongoing mass surveillance programs.
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Justice Department Withholds FISA Court Orders on NSA's Bulk Collection of Data
The decision to keep some of the records secret, in the thick of Edward Snowden’s revelations, has raised suspicions within the ACLU that the government continues to hide bulk surveillance activities from the U.S. public.
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Everything You Need to Know About Obama’s NSA Reforms, In Plain English
A primer on the proposed reforms, which many say don't go far enough.
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NSA Carves Pathway Into International Computers
The agency has used a covert channel of radio waves to reach computers that adversaries have tried to make impervious to spying or cyberattack.
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NSA Fails to Deny Spying on Congress As FISA Court Reauthorizes Phone Metadata Seizure
In its statement, which comes as the NSA gears up for a make-or-break legislative battle over the scope of its surveillance powers, the agency pointed to “privacy protections” which it says it keeps on all Americans' phone records.
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NSA Can Hack and Spy on Any iPhone Any Time
Everything you do on your iPhone may be open to NSA snooping, but Apple is claiming ignorance.
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Edward Snowden Declares "Mission Accomplished," Reflects on NSA Revelations
“I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself."
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Beyond the NSA: Other Agencies Spy on You, Too
The Surveillance State Repeal Act would rescind the PATRIOT Act entirely, as well as the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, restoring rights that have been constitutionally violated by the FBI among other agencies.
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An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"
A new portrait emerges of Snowden as a principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee at the NSA Hawaii Kunia facility, and one who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.
