John Oliver Flew to Russia to Interview Edward Snowden for One of the Best Clips You’ll See All Year
Apr 6, 2015 John Oliver recently discovered, much to his dismay, that many Americans still don't know who Edward Snowden is or what he did. So the "Last Week Tonight" host did what any good political comedian would: He took a trip to Moscow to talk to the whistleblower.
NSA Advocate Condoleezza Rice’s Appointment to Dropbox Board Has Ruffled Many a Tech Feather
Apr 12, 2014
Obama to End NSA Metadata Program As We Know It
Mar 25, 2014 President Obama is expected to announce major reforms to the best known and most controversial program in the government's mass surveillance regime, however the devil is in the details.
Tech Giants Knew About NSA Surveillance
Mar 23, 2014 The senior lawyer for the National Security Agency said Wednesday that U.S. technology companies such as Yahoo and Google were fully in the know about the spy agency's widespread collection of their customers' data, contrary to claims they made at the time those programs became publicly known.Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Explains Why He Refused the Government
Oct 9, 2013 Lavabit founder Ladar Levison chose to blow up his own company rather than turn over his 400,000 users' data to the feds. Here he explains why to Amy Goodman.
Taxpayer Money Used to Cover PRISM Compliance Costs
Aug 23, 2013 Top-secret material passed to The Guardian shows that the National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to help major Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook cover the cost of certification for participating in the PRISM surveillance program.
Greenwald Blows Lid Off Massive NSA Web Surveillance Operation ‘XKeyscore’
Jul 31, 2013 The Guardian columnist broke another major story about the NSA on Wednesday, this one detailing an Internet surveillance program that allows the powerful agency to spy on the emails, Web chats and search histories of millions of Americans without prior authorization.
What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance
Jul 23, 2013 Among the snooping revelations of recent weeks, there have been tantalizing bits of evidence that the NSA is tapping fiber-optic cables that carry nearly all international phone and Internet data.But like other aspects of NSA surveillance, virtually everything about this kind of NSA surveillance is highly secret and we’re left with far from a full picture.
The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Jul 23, 2013 America has become amnesiac -- a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
Microsoft Gave NSA Access to Users’ Emails, Web Chats and Video Calls, Report Says
Jul 12, 2013 According to an account Thursday in The Guardian based off of top-secret documents obtained from whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Microsoft allowed the National Security Agency to access its users' electronic communications as part of the NSA's PRISM program.
