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Why Is University of Pennsylvania Hosting Secret Meetings About Secret Surveillance?
Last month's conference here, entitled "On the Very Idea of Secret Laws," featured moderated discussions about secret courts, secret laws and America's rampaging surveillance apparatus—and was kept strangely, well, secret from the public.
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Revealed: U.S. and U.K. Struck Secret Deal Allowing NSA to "Unmask" Britons' Personal Data
In another Snowden revelation, a 2007 deal allowed the NSA to store previously restricted material in which U.K. citizens not suspected of wrongdoing were caught up in the surveillance dragnet.
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Citizens of the World, Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Data
NSA reform by the U.S. Congress overlooks the fact that the internet transcends national control. We the people must make the rules.
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Have a Nice Day, NSA: Brazil's "Mad Cow" Retaliation to U.S. Spying
Brazil's president called NSA surveillance of her country “a breach of international law” and a violation of human rights.
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Follow the Money: How the NSA Monitors the Financial World
Secret documents reveal that the main NSA financial database Tracfin already had 180 million datasets by 2011.
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Turn The Light On! It's Us Or Them For the Future of the Web
Will a new generation of whistleblowers set us free? If we’re going to win the web-game back, we’re going to need them more than ever.
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Investigation: The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities
After 9/11, the NYPD built in effect its own CIA — and its Demographics Unit delved deeper into the lives of citizens than did the NSA.
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Der Spiegel: NSA Hacked UN Videocalls As Part of Surveillance Program
The extent of U.S. covert surveillance at the UN was further detailed Sunday in a report by Germany's leading weekly, which claimed agents hacked into video conferencing at New York headquarters.
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Snowden: U.K. Government Is Now Leaking Documents About Itself
Edward Snowden said he is not the source of an Independent article about Britain's secret Internet-monitoring station.
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Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism
Is it justice when the U.S. president prosecutes whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity?
