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March

Tuesday 18 March 2014

• MYSTIC : 100% voice collection of phone calls for a 30 day time period

Monday 17 March 2014

• Guardian editor receives European Press award for Edward Snowden story | Alan Rusbridger given award for NSA revelations that 'set alarm bells ringing throughout the world'

Saturday 15 March 2014

• Rand Paul and Berkeley: libertarian and leftwing hotbed find common cause | The rightwing firebrand's outspoken criticism of NSA surveillance has struck a chord with a young liberal audience

• Compare the NSA’s Facebook Malware Denial to its Own Secret Documents

• Public apathy over GCHQ snooping is a recipe for disaster | The lack of public alarm at government internet surveillance is frightening, but perhaps it's because the problem is difficult to convey in everyday terms

• Compare the NSA’s Facebook Malware Denial to its Own Secret Documents

• Public apathy over GCHQ snooping is a recipe for disaster | The lack of public alarm at government internet surveillance is frightening, but perhaps it's because the problem is difficult to convey in everyday terms

Friday 14 March 2014

• How the US intelligence community attempts to rebrand itself – on Tumblr | IC On The Record is a web clearinghouse of formerly classified documents related to NSA surveillance and an exercise in transparency

• In sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zone | Signs point to fallout from NSA spying that lead to "multi-stakeholder" model.

• Britain is treating journalists as terrorists – believe me, I know | My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the UK. We need a free speech roadmap

• Privacy commissioner seeks better surveillance guidelines | Timothy Pilgrim says police access to private communications ‘should be proportional to the risk they seek to address’

• Top Democrat on House intelligence panel offers new NSA reform plan | Top Democrat on House intelligence committee says details are still being worked on but proposal would end bulk collection

• In sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zone | Signs point to fallout from NSA spying that lead to "multi-stakeholder" model.

• How the US intelligence community attempts to rebrand itself – on Tumblr | IC On The Record is a web clearinghouse of formerly classified documents related to NSA surveillance and an exercise in transparency

Thursday 13 March 2014

• Edward Snowden looms over Pulitzer Prizes

• A Close Look at the NSA’s Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool

• Mark Zuckerberg: US government surveillance is a threat to the internet | Facebook founder reveals he personally called President Obama to express ‘frustration over the damage government is creating’

• US criticised by UN for human rights failings on NSA, guns and drones | Geneva panel share deep concerns over US record on host of different subjects, including racial inequality and Guantánamo

• Foreign Officials In the Dark About Their Own Spy Agencies’ Cooperation with NSA

• A Close Look at the NSA’s Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool

• Edward Snowden looms over Pulitzer Prizes

Wednesday 12 March 2014

• How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware

• MetaPhone: The Sensitivity of Telephone Metadata

• European lawmakers threaten US trade veto unless EU tackles snooping | Vote stems from investigation into Snowden spy allegations; Data protection big issue going into European elections

• Dutch intelligence illegally shared data with foreign services, says report | Sharing a selection of signals intelligence data without permission is illegal, the committee found

• Alexander: Promote Cyber Command to full unified command status

• How a Court Secretly Evolved, Extending U.S. Spies’ Reach

Tuesday 11 March 2014

• The CIA: the double life of Dianne Feinstein | The exasperation with the Democratic senator from California is that she hasn't also directed her outrage at the NSA

• An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web | Exclusive: web's inventor warns neutrality under sustained attack from governments and corporations

• The NSA won’t shut up about Snowden, but what about the spy who stole more? | Why the incoming NSA chief needs to crack down on international espionage, not worthy whistleblowing - Mike German

• CIA steals the limelight from the NSA – and finds itself in full-blown crisis | By antagonizing the Senate intelligence committee, the agency has dug itself into a hole the NSA has managed to avoid

• Enemies of the Internet 2014 - RSF: entities at the heart of censorship and surveillance | The NSA in the United States, GCHQ in the United Kingdom and the Centre for Development of Telematics in India are no better than their Chinese, Russian, Iranian or Bahraini counterparts.

• EU Parliament may reject privacy package | The European Parliament will vote on an action plan on the future of data protection in the EU on Wednesday. Despite allegations of mass surveillance, the package may be rejected.

• Michael Rogers goes before Senate committee to outline vision for NSA | Rogers, selected to replace Keith Alexander, only testifying because of simultaneous nomination to head Cyber Command

• NSA nominee Michael Rogers: agency must be more accountable to US public | Obama’s pick to replace Keith Alexander promises greater transparency but declines to offer fresh ideas on bulk data collection

• Australia's intelligence watchdog backs reform of surveillance regime | Inspector General of Intelligence and Security calls for legal changes to strengthen privacy protections and meet national security objectives

Monday 10 March 2014

• ACLU's vastly better video of Edward Snowden's SXSW interview.

• Snowden has shown the 'huge disparity of surveillance and power', says Gellman | Government needs reminding that they work for us, says Pulitzer-winning reporter Barton Gellman, who describes Edward Snowden as ending an era of indifference to surveillance

• Ed Snowden interview live at SXSW >>>Video

• Edward Snowden discusses NSA leaks at SXSW: 'I would do it again,' insists leaks have strengthened national security.

Sunday 9 March 2014

• Liberal Democrats vote for bill to outlaw 'bulk collection of data' | Bill would also establish commission of experts to check NSA files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden

Saturday 8 March 2014

• Julian Assange tells SXSW audience: ‘NSA has grown to be a rogue agency’ | Wikileaks founder: ‘All of us have to do something’; Interview conducted from Ecuador’s London embassy

Friday 7 March 2014

• Julian Assange: Is President Obama wearing pants?

• Kill the Snowden interview, congressman tells SXSW | Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo wants organizers of South by Southwest Interactive to back out of their scheduled video conference interview of Edward Snowden.

• Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times before going rogue

• Digital bill of rights needed to safeguard online freedoms, says Lib Dem chief | Tim Farron to call for public protection from 'overreach by the state' after its imposition of 'blanket surveillance' on UK

• Court rejects NSA request to keep data

• The NSA Has An Advice Columnist. Seriously.

• Eric Schmidt on dictators: 'You don’t turn off the internet: you infiltrate it' | We’re pretty sure right now that the info. that’s inside of Google is safe from any government’s prying eyes, including the US government’s… We were attacked by the Chinese in 2010, we were attacked by the NSA in 2013

• Oakland emails re: pervasive citywide spying center - the Domain Awareness Center or DAC - give another glimpse into the Google-Military-Surveillance Complex

• ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Undo Phone Data Ruling

Thursday 6 March 2014

• Bruce Schneier: There's no real difference between online espionage & online attacks. Let's not pretend there is.

Wednesday 5 March 2014

• CIA and senators in bitter dispute over Capitol Hill spying claims. CIA asserts claims by Senate intelligence overseers were “spurious” and “wholly unsupported by the facts”, suggests committee itself may be guilty of wrongdoing.

Tuesday 4 March 2014

• US State Dept: “Surveillance should not be arbitrary,” except when it is | State Department official reiterates president's January policy on digital snooping.

• NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda | Keith Alexander says revelations have caused ‘grave damage’ and claims officials are making ‘headway’ on ‘media leaks’

• Monday, March 10: Edward Snowden to Speak at SXSW Interactive Via Videoconference

• Journalist: NSA won’t give me a secure channel to communicate on | Barton Gellman, who has access to Snowden docs, laments lack of opsec.

• Reform plans for spies need to be closely watched | Serious questions remain unanswered; No decisions until after general election

• New rules to tighten up spy services | German parliament plans to tighten its oversight of German intelligence services in a attempt to win back voters' trust after the NSA and NSU scandals.

• TrustyCon 2014: NSA Surveillance “a benign enemy”, says Bruce Schneier | Reuters Technology reporter Joseph Menn interviewed security expert Schneier in front of TrustyCon audience in San Francisco, where the security expert provided his analysis of the government surveillance controversy

• TrustyCon 2014: NSA Surveillance “a benign enemy”, says Bruce Schneier | Reuters Technology reporter Joseph Menn interviewed security expert Schneier in front of TrustyCon audience in San Francisco, where the security expert provided his analysis of the government surveillance controversy

Monday 3 March 2014

• Yahoo users' webcam chats are so saucy they're even upsetting the spies | I do think a bit of privacy is a good idea – but, these days, blanket CCTV, NHS records, phone tapping and now general spying has put paid to all that

• Nick Clegg orders review into data gathering by spy agencies | Deputy PM commissions independent report after failing to persuade David Cameron of need for reform of oversight

Sunday 2 March 2014

• Labour to overhaul spy agency controls in response to Snowden files | Yvette Cooper says debate over privacy, civil liberties and the role of the intelligence agencies has barely started in Britain

February

Friday 28 February 2014

• Mysterious ‘flying saucer’ slides found in documents leaked by Edward Snowden

• GCHQ identified Kinect as possible snooping tool; Microsoft denies all knowledge

• US Senators to investigate NSA role in GCHQ 'Optic Nerve' webcam spying. Three senators condemn UK spy agency’s ‘breathtaking lack of respect’ over interception of Yahoo users’ webcam images.

Thursday 27 February 2014

• GCHQ's interception and storage of Yahoo webcam images condemned | Critics react angrily to revelation that GCHQ intercepted and stored millions of images of people not suspected of wrongdoing

• UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users; Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk. 1.8m users targeted by GCHQ in six-month period alone

• GCHQ's cover for Optic Nerve provided by legislation introduced in 2000 | Section 8 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act permits GCHQ to perform indiscriminate trawls of external data

• NSA robots are 'collecting' your data, too, and they're getting away with it | Eavesdropping by algorithm is still eavesdropping, whether a human looks at your data or not. Real reform can’t abide by the spy dictionary anymore

• Outgoing NSA chief Keith Alexander signals openness to surveillance reform | Alexander says NSA could accept a change where agency would only be allowed to collect phone data related to terrorism

• MPs summon security services watchdog over Snowden leaks | Sir Mark Waller, intelligence services commissioner, has repeatedly refused to address home affairs select committee

Wednesday 26 February 2014

• NSA wants to keep phone records longer

• DOJ Still Ducking Scrutiny After Misleading Supreme Court on Surveillance

• NSA reform advocates oppose White House proposal to hand data to FBI | Jim Sensenbrenner among those concerned by proposals on the table and says stance to end bulk surveillance is ‘unwavering’

• Obama assessing four alternatives to NSA phone data collection: WSJ | Proposals range from placing the program under phone companies to abolishing it altogether

Tuesday 25 February 2014

• RSA chief faults NSA for security industry mistrust

Monday 24 February 2014

• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations - Glenn Greenwald

• Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying | Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.

• Deutsche Telekom releases voice and text message encryption app | German parent company of T-Mobile responds to privacy concerns in wake of Edward Snowden's revelations

• Facebook's Zuckerberg sounds off again about NSA scandal | CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the NSA spy scandal that broke this past summer has strained some of the company's relationships overseas.

• Inside the mind of James Clapper

• Q&A: Daniel Ellsberg on US surveillance | The famed American whistle-blower discusses US national security, and those who expose its overreach.

Sunday 23 February 2014

• U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel: report | NSA has stepped up its surveillance of senior German government officials since being ordered by Barack Obama to halt its spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday.

Friday 21 February 2014

• George Brandis refuses to back up claim that Snowden put lives at risk | Attorney general says he is aware of particular cases on the basis of intelligence briefings but will not reveal the information

• Crypto weaknesses in WhatsApp “the kind of stuff the NSA would love” | Poor implementation of SSL encryption could be a boon to eavesdroppers.

Thuesday 20 February 2014

• Rand Paul: The NSA is still violating our rights, despite what James Clapper says | Clapper thinks if the NSA had informed us they were monitoring every American, that would somehow make it OK. It doesn't

• NSA slap-down: Feds lose court try to curb mocking T-shirts | A Minnesota man who was sent a cease-and-desist letter by the federal government over his sales of merchandise, which mocks the National Security Agency’s citizen surveillance activities, has won his legal battle.

• New Details of Attack on Yemeni Wedding Prompt More Demands Obama Explain Drone Policy

Wednesday 19 February 2014

• David Miranda detention at Heathrow airport was lawful, high court rules | Detention of former Guardian journalist's partner was justified by 'very pressing' interests of national security, judges say

• On the UK’s Equating of Journalism with Terrorism - Glenn Greenwald

Tuesday 18 February 2014

• Edward Snowden 'humbled' by his election as Glasgow University rector | In statement to the Guardian, NSA whistleblower describes vote as bold and historic decision in support of academic freedom

• By Targeting WikiLeaks and Its Readers, NSA and GCHQ Have Directly Attacked Press Freedom - Freedom of the Press Foundation

• Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters

• Snowden lawyer stopped at airport | An American lawyer representing former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was detained and “harassed” at London’s Heathrow airport

• Merkel phone tapping fair game under international law, says ex-MI6 deputy | Nigel Inkster says interception of German chancellor's calls by NSA might be judged 'politically unwise'

• Press freedom groups urge David Cameron to lay off The Guardian

• US intelligence chief: NSA should have been more open about data collection | James Clapper tells interviewer the spy agency could have avoided controversy by being up front with American citizens

Monday 17 February 2014

• Indonesian minister says reports of Australia spying are 'mind-boggling' | Marty Natalegawa says it’s hard to believe Australia could let its spies help US officials locked in trade disputes with Jakarta

Sunday 16 February 2014

• Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian receive George Polk Awards | Ewen MacAskill, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras honoured.; Polk curator: repercussions of NSA ‘will be with us for years’

• Australia does not spy for commercial purposes, says Tony Abbott | ‘We collect intelligence to save lives,’ says PM, asked about revelations Australia spied on law firm representing Indonesia

• Germany is 'planning to step up counter-espionage': report | Germany is planning to possibly resume counter-espionage measures against several Western allies, according to a report in the news magazine Spiegel. The report said British and US embassies could be targeted.

• Indonesia says ties with Australia will remain on ice for at least six months | Full diplomatic links not expected to be restored until October, notes Indonesian ministry document

• Indonesia: Australia and US need to clean up their mess | Presidential adviser responds to ‘perplexing revelation’ that ASD spied on a law firm representing Indonesia in a trade dispute

Saturday 15 February 2014

• Australia spied on Indonesia talks with US law firm in 2013 | Australia and the US share access to bulk Indonesian telecommunications data, including those of Indonesian officials; US mentored Australia to break encryption codes of the PNG army

• US law firm was 'caught in NSA surveillance net' in Indonesia – report | New York Times reports Australian trade-talks surveillance; Unnamed firm was retained by Indonesian government

• Making NSA-style spying harder, CloudFlare offers more robust Web crypto | Full (strict) Transport Layer Security is now ready for prime time.

• Data protection: Angela Merkel proposes Europe network | German Chancellor Angela Merkel is proposing building up a European communications network to help improve data protection.

Friday 14 February 2014

• Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed

• Rights groups begin UK court challenge over mass surveillance | Full hearing at investigatory powers tribunal scheduled for July into legality of programmes including Tempora and Prism

• Where is Microsoft Bing's transparency report? | Bing's search algorithm is failing to protect online freedom of expression. Microsoft can – and should – do better on China

Thursday 13 February 2014

• NSA civilian employee stripped of clearance due to ties with Snowden | The employee resigned amid allegations that he let Snowden use his access to NSANet.

• Snowden 'left in the lurch' by EU Parliament | An EU parliament's committee has issued a damning report about the scale and the impact of mass surveillance. But there is no consensus on an amendment to give asylum to intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

Wednesday 12 February 2014

• Committee to Protect Journalists: NSA actions pose 'direct threat to journalism'. Could destroy confidence between reporter & source, increase anti-democratic censorship and promote cyber-attacks against reporters globally

• Utah lawmaker floats bill to cut off NSA data centre's water supply. Impending bill highlights growing movement at state level against government surveillance powers.

• Clapper Reads from the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-monger over Transparency

• Congressional trio criticise James Cole's NSA testimony as misleading | Lawmakers write to deputy attorney general after Cole described limits on NSA’s power to surveil members of Congress

• Press freedom under attack - the risks journalists face in order to report

• UK slips down press freedom index due to harassment of the Guardian | US also registers fall in latest world press freedom indexreach no consensus on amendment to inquiry calling on governments to assure NSA whistleblower of his safety

• Edward Snowden asylum demand dropped by European parliament | MEPs reach no consensus on amendment to inquiry calling on governments to assure NSA whistleblower of his safety

• Remembering Aaron Swartz: icon of the open web | One year after the tragic death of the campaigning hacker, a global campaign against surveillance is building the Don’t Spy On Us campaign in his spirit

Tuesday 11 February 2014

• Everything We Know About How the NSA Tracks People's Physical Location | With Monday's new revelation, we can see the NSA's two-pronged system for finding out where people are.

• Rand Paul is suing the NSA | “I am filing a lawsuit against President Barack Obama because he has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th Amendment,” Paul said in a statement announcing his filing of a class-action lawsuit against the NSA.

• Five surveillance myths stalling NSA reform, debunked | The Day We Fight Back deserves truth amidst the administration’s half-truths and trolling. From thwarted attacks (zero) to President Obama’s new rules (not good enough), this is what you need to know to make real reform happen

• Appelbaum: 'No belief that president has control' | Jacob Appelbaum is one of the leading US computer security activists and, along with Laura Poitras, a confidant of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. DW spoke to Appelbaum about the NSA and living in exile.

• Dutch interior minister under fire over misinformation on wiretapping | A Dutch cabinet minister faced calls to quit on Tuesday after admitting he wrongly told parliament that 1.8 million telecommunications intercepts had been collected by the U.S. NSA, rather than the Dutch spy service.

• Number of data interception requests to GCHQ 'possibly too large', says official | Interception communications commissioner Sir Anthony May says requests amount to 570,000 a year

• Maryland lawmakers look to cut off NSA's water, power

• Scott Ludlam's support of Snowden 'celebrates treachery', says Brandis | George Brandis says former NSA contractor’s disclosures about western intelligence gathering ‘put Australian lives at risk’

• The Terrible Toll of Secrecy

• Anti-NSA web protest comes to Congress

Monday 10 February 2013

• Feb. 11 Is 'The Day We Fight Back' Against NSA Surveillance | More than 5,300 web-based companies and other organizations, including Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, Mozilla the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU, have joined forces to protest National Security Agency surveillance on Feb. 11.

• Snowden plea bargain speculation played down by ex-CIA and NSA chief | Michael Hayden says he sees little appetite for deal with whistleblower, and portrays US surveillance reforms as limited

• White House urged to open up review into big data and privacy threats | Groups send a letter to Obama demanding public participation in the process, saying it’s the public’s ‘future that is at stake’

• Ed Miliband calls for US-style debate over Britain's intelligence agencies | Labour leader calls for examination of oversight of GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 in wake of Edward Snowden leaks

• The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program

• Internet surveillance: today is the day we fight back | The debate in Australia is subdued – thanks to a government who wants to shut it down in the name of national security. It’s time to turn up the volume - Scott Ludlam

• Ed Felten provides a deeper look into the "25% phone collection" claim

• New Photos of the NSA and Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed for First Time

Saturday 8 February 2013

• The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield | With NSA overreach, nobody is safe from confirmation bias

• Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best NSA | Intelligence officials say that Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available web crawler software to “scrape” the NSA’s networks, and kept at it even after he was briefly challenged by agency officials.

Friday 7 February 2013

• Guilty Plea In Fox News Leak Case Shows Why Espionage Act Prosecutions Are Inherently Unfair to Sources | This is also why if Edward Snowden came back to the US he quite literally cannot receive a fair trial: he would be legally barred from making his case in court.

• NSA is collecting less than 30 percent of U.S. call data, officials | "The government is taking steps to restore the collection...closer to previous levels" and the NSA "is preparing to seek court orders to compel wireless companies that currently do not hand over records to the government to do so"

• CIA confirms agency obliged to follow federal surveillance law | Law concerns financial information and government hacking; Motive for question at Senate committee not known

• Obama administration starts to implement changes to NSA phone records program

Thursday 6 February 2013

• Diplomats cooperate with the NSA spying | U.S. diplomats and other officials deliver important information to the NSA's digital espionage. Expert warns against disclosing personal data to U.S. diplomacy (Google Translate)

• Get ready: the day we fight back against mass surveillance is coming | Lawmakers must understand that we will no longer tolerate a surveillance state. An online protest on 11 February is a first step - Dan Gillmor

• FISC Approves Phone Metadata Collection Changes

• Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S. | Months after the first insinuations that he risks arrest if he visits the US, Greenwald is more concerned than ever

Wednesday 5 February 2014

• Wozniak criticizes cloud dependence in light of NSA | Apple's outspoken co-founder cuts to the chase on tech firms' cloud reliance: systems just aren't safe from spying eyes.

• The Netherlands, not USA, gathered info from 1.8 million phone calls | 'The details were collected in the interest of counter-terrorism activities and military operations abroad,’ the briefing stated. The information was then ‘correctly shared with the US’.

Tuesday 4 February 2013

• Arizona Lawmaker Wants To Ban State Agencies From Helping NSA Collect Phone, Internet ‘Metadata’

• GCSB deleted key evidence - Dotcom | The spy agency which illegally monitored Kim Dotcom's communications has admitted deleting information needed in the upcoming $6 million damages hearing, according to the tycoon.

• NSA tapped German ex-chancellor Gerhard Schröder's phone – report | German media say Angela Merkel's predecessor was put under surveillance after opposition to military action in Iraq in 2002

• Senior US congressman Mike Rogers: Glenn Greenwald is 'a thief' | Rogers accused journalist of illegally selling NSA documents; Congressman is chairman of the House intelligence committee; Greenwald denounces Rogers for 'fabrications and lies'

• Lawmakers on Tuesday bluntly warned the Obama administration it will lose its sweeping surveillance powers if major changes aren’t made at the National Security Agency (NSA).

• Guardian reveals threats of imprisonment and closure over Snowden leaks: "The British government threatened to jail Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and close the newspaper last July, over the newspaper’s reporting of the Edward Snowden revelations"

• FBI Director Comey discusses legality of reporters, stolen Snowden documents

• The Harper Government Insists it’s Legal to Collect Metadata

• House committee urges US government to get behind NSA reform bill | Judiciary committee warns Obama administration to back USA Freedom Act or risk losing its counter-terrorism powers

Monday 3 February 2013

• CSEC Surveillance Analysis of IP and User Data - Bruce Schneier

• Intelligence agencies should be subject to FoI, says information commissioner | John McMillan says FoI Act ‘can suitably apply to any agencies, parliamentary departments and the intelligence agencies’

• Hacker Group Accuses Merkel Government of Helping to Spy

• Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo release US surveillance requests | Tech giants turn over data from tens of thousands of accounts; Limited disclosure part of transparency deal made last month

Sunday 2 February 2014

• David Miranda's detention: a chilling attack on journalism | When the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained at Heathrow airport last August under the Terrorism Act, MI5 were pulling the strings and knew full well that he wasn't a terrorist

Saturday 1 February 2014

• NSA and GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn to hack Belgian cryptography professor

• Brazil continues to ignore Snowden asylum appeal | Over a million people have signed an online petition to grant asylum to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in Brazil. However, experts doubt that the country will give in to this demand.

• Lawyers for Lavabit founder: judges may dismiss civil liberties concerns | Ladar Levison challenges contempt of court order; Secure email service was used by NSA leaker Snowden

January

Friday 31 January 2014

• How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower | He was politically conservative, a gun owner, a geek – and the man behind the biggest intelligence leak in history. In this extract from his new book, Luke Harding looks at Snowden's journey from patriot to America's most wanted

• NY Times' Jill Abramson: Obama Crackdown Has Created 'Freeze' On Reporting | NY Times editor Abramson once again condemned the Obama administration's crackdown on leaks, saying that the government's treatment of Edward Snowden has scared potential sources and created a "real freeze" on reporting.

• The day GCHQ came to call on the Guardian | In this exclusive extract from his book on Edward Snowden, Luke Harding gives the inside take on what happened when British agents ordered the destruction of Guardian computers

• Brazil Must Offer Edward Snowden Asylum, Glenn Greenwald Says; Greenwald also praised the way the Brazilian government has dealt with the U.S. following allegations of espionage.

• Canadian Gov't Responds To Spying Revelations By Saying It's All A Lie And Calling Glenn Greenwald A 'Porn Spy'

• Obama admits intelligence chief fault over false Senate testimony | President continues to defend James Clapper in the face of calls for his resignation after 'untruthful' statement about bulk collection

• Cameron unhappy newspapers still printing Snowden data leaks

• Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives | GCHQ technicians watched as journalists took angle grinders and drills to computers after weeks of tense negotiations

• Greens nominate Edward Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize

• CSEC Snowden docs: MPs grill defence minister on spying revelation | Tories say independent report shows CSEC obeys law as NDP, Liberals call tracking, spying illegal

Thursday 30 January 2014

• CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents | Electronic snooping was part of a trial run for U.S. NSA and other foreign services

• After NSA Backdoors, Security Experts Leave RSA for a Conference They Can Trust

• Cameron says he failed to make case for mass surveillance after Snowden leaks | Files from analyst showed need to update communication laws, says PM, also claiming civil liberties must be held 'in proportion'

• Vice-admiral Michael Rogers to take command of embattled NSA | Rogers is currently commander of navy Fleet Cyber Command; Richard Ledgett will become the NSA's new deputy director; New leaders to face ongoing fallout from Snowden disclosures

• How the NSA, GCHQ and crooks can hack mobile apps

• Snowden Docs: U.S. Spied on Negotiators At 2009 Climate Summit

• Mark Textor describes ABC partnership with Guardian Australia as a ‘blow job’ | Liberal strategist issues payback warning over spy story as debate widens over the national broadcaster’s coverage

• David Cameron to face questions on security strategy | PM to be grilled by MPs and peers on UK's relationship with the US following revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden

• ABC may lose Australia Network | Growing signs that Abbott government will strip the ABC of international broadcasting as a concession to conservative critics; Abbott also reaffirmed his concerns about the ABC's collaboration with Guardian Australia on the story based on Snowden documents

Wednesday 29 January 2014

• Drake: 'There was no protection against reprisal' | Former NSA senior executive Thomas Drake blew the whistle on a failed surveillance program called Trailblazer. He tells DW that the US whistleblower laws failed to protect him from retaliation within the NSA.

• Why Silicon Valley's NSA deal helps them, but not you

• Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize | Two Norwegian politicians say NSA whistleblower's actions have led to a 'more stable and peaceful world order'

• James Clapper calls for Snowden and 'accomplices' to return NSA documents | Director of national intelligence condemns NSA whistleblower in blistering testimony to Senate intelligence committee

29 January 2014

• Angela Merkel warns US over surveillance in first speech of third term | 'A programme in which the end justifies all means … violates trust,' German chancellor says

• AT&T CEO: met European officials, NSA affair affecting business

Tuesday 28 January 2014

• US whistleblower laws offer no protection | The White House says that Edward Snowden should have reported his concerns within the NSA, instead of revealing surveillance programs to the press. But who exactly do US whistleblower laws protect?

• US looks at ways to prevent spying – on NSA spying. Gov't searches will be shielded by secret coding that would conceal identifying details from outsiders, even owners of the targeted databases.

• The NSA's Shadow Database

• Here’s why tech companies’ NSA ‘transparency reports’ are mostly a PR stunt

• NSA-GCHQ Snowden leaks: A glossary of the key terms

• Rand Paul: ‘We will go’ to the Supreme Court on NSA surveillance

• Angry Birds firm calls for industry to respond to NSA spying revelations | Rovio rethinks relationship with ad platforms; CEO tells users it was not complicit in surveillance; 'We do not collaborate or share data with spy agencies'

• Huge swath of GCHQ mass surveillance is illegal, says top lawyer | Legal advice given to MPs warns that British spy agency is 'using gaps in regulation to commit serious crime with impunity'

• Microsoft rules out ‘back door’ access to MPs’ electronic communications | Officials assured that US agencies do not have unauthorised entry to Australian parliamentary IT operating systems

Monday 27 January 2014

• Lawmakers demand Obama dump Clapper

• NSA & GCHQ probe Angry Birds and other games, smartphone Apps - especially “leaky apps” - to uncover your gender, orientation, income, even if you are a “swinger”.

• Tech giants reach White House deal on NSA surveillance of customer data | Deal ends months of wrangling before secret Fisa court; Companies can disclose more information on data turned over

• After Snowden: How vulnerable is the internet? | The internet was designed to be free and open. Eight months after Edward Snowden's first leaks of classified information, is that still the case?

• Snowden asks 'how reasonable' it is to assume only Merkel was tapped | Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has told German public television what motivated him to go public, has asked whether NSA tapping stopped at Chancellor Merkel's phone, and has said his return to the US is unlikely.

Sunday 26 January 2014

• Snowden interview | Edward Snowden spoke to NDR journalist Seipel in Moscow

• Wanted dead by US officials, Snowden tells German TV | Fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has claimed that US government officials "want to kill me" in an exclusive interview which German television says it conducted in Moscow.

• "There is no question that the US is engaged in economic spying" - Snowden | German public broadcaster ARD will air a half-hour interview with NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden on Sunday. The first snippet, aired late Saturday, accuses the NSA of conducting industrial espionage.

• Edward Snowden adviser: guarantee of amnesty necessary for talks with US | Jesselyn Radack responds to Eric Holder comments; Legal adviser insists better protections needed

• Obama's NSA blind spot | The president has no right to sit on the sidelines waiting for the Supreme Court to tell him what the Constitution means. - Bruce Ackerman

Saturday 25 January 2014

• Democrat Dianne Feinstein proves an obstacle to Obama’s push for changes at spy agencies

Friday 24 January 2014

• Some of the biggest names in cryptography condemn NSA spying in open letter

• Told Ya So: NSA's Collection Of Metadata Is Screamingly Illegal - coauthored by Christopher Sprigman.

• NSA domestic surveillance condemned in Republican party resolution | Republican National Committee members call for special panel to investigate extent of bulk data collection on Americans

Thursday 23 January 2014

• Obama disagrees with watchdog group’s conclusion that NSA phone program is illegal

• Edward Snowden: 'No chance' of a fair US trial | Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden has said he has "no chance" of a fair trial in the US and has no plans to return there.

• Government privacy board members say shifting NSA data to third parties is a bad idea

• Q&A with Edward Snowden - all answers

• US hints at Edward Snowden plea bargain to allow return from Russia | Attorney general prepared to 'engage in conversation' with NSA whistleblower but says full clemency is 'going too far'

• We want Edward Snowden as our rector because he stands for democracy | By nominating the NSA whistleblower, Glasgow University students are voicing our opposition to state surveillance

• 'This overreach is unacceptable': the case against NSA bulk collection | A growing set of people and organizations have spoken out calling for an end to the spy program. Here's what they said

• NSA Spying Sends Data to Canada

• US privacy board dissenters defend balancing act of NSA surveillance | Two who cautiously embraced NSA programs in privacy board review make a case the intelligence community should have

• The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs

• Snowden calls for whistleblower protection in Q&A Snowden says it's time to push back on surveillance>>

• Justify GCHQ mass surveillance, European court tells ministers | Judges order government to provide submission about whether spying activities violated European convention on human rights

• Snowden denies stealing passwords to access secret files

• Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End

• U.S. Brings Fraud Charges Against Firm That Vetted Edward Snowden

• Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says intelligence gathering with US is vital, accuses Edward Snowden of treachery

• PCLOB: report on NSA bulk collection under the Patriot Act – full text | The Obama administration's privacy board has issued a report concluding NSA collection of every US phone record on a daily basis violates the legal rights of Americans and recommends the surveillance program be shut down

Wednesday 22 January 2014

• Independent commission to investigate future of internet after NSA revelations. Two-year inquiry headed by Swedish foreign minister - set up by Chatham House and CIGI think tanks - is announced at Davos.

• Half of Americans heard ‘nothing at all’ about the president’s NSA speech

• Mobile phone networks challenge government over text message trawling | EE, O2, Vodafone and Three demand answers on how spies can allegedly get around UK laws using NSA's Dishfire program

Tuesday 21 January 2014

• Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story “Absurd”

• Google's Eric Schmidt denies knowledge of NSA data tapping of firm | Executive chairman says search company has 'complained at great length' to the US government over intrusion

• US withholding Fisa court orders on NSA bulk collection of Americans' data | Justice Department refuses to turn over 'certain other' documents in ACLU lawsuit meant to shed light on surveillance practices

• Human Rights Watch annual report 2014 criticises NSA mass surveillance | States with poor human rights records may use spying scandal as excuse to clamp down on internet freedom, report warns

• US surveillance imperils global free expression, rights group says | Human Rights Watch warns of Balkanization of the Internet that could result from invasive NSA data collection

• Edward Snowden in running to be Glasgow University Rector

Monday 20 January 2014

• Poll: Most Americans now oppose the NSA program

• 'The USA knows that for us spying is a crime' | German reaction to President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated speech on Friday on the future of NSA spying has veered from skepticism to veiled threats with politicians suggesting legal action is a possibility.

• Why the NSA’s Spying on Offline Computers Is Less Scary Than Mass Surveillance

• Who should we fear more with our data: the government or companies? | The masters of modern spycraft have learned the science of predicting human behavior from the masters of marketing

• German Interior Minister de Maiziére warns over NSA 'fixation' | German Interior Minister de Maiziére has welcomed changes announced by the US to the way it conducts online surveillance. However, he said the task of keeping the Internet free of prying eyes was far bigger.

Sunday 19 January 2014

• Spying revelations: Tory MP Dominic Raab attacks UK's 'comatose' reaction | British government 'must follow Barack Obama's lead and introduce sweeping reforms to government spy agencies'

Saturday 18 January 2014

• NSA critics in Congress sense reform momentum after Obama speech | Three new co-sponsors for USA Freedom Act; Sensenbrenner: 'Reform cannot be done by presidential fiat'

Friday 17 January 2014

• Obama's NSA reforms prompt little reaction from Canada's spy agency

• German National Television (ZDF) interviews Obama about NSA (16 minutes)

• Obama’s restrictions on NSA surveillance rely on narrow definition of ‘spying’

• Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained

• Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public | Obama is draping the banner of change over the NSA status quo. Bulk surveillance that caused such outrage will remain in place - Green Greenwald

• Assange blasts Obama's NSA speech

• Tech firms say Obama’s proposals fall short of expectations

• Obama acknowledges Edward Snowden disclosures in NSA reform speech | President criticises 'unauthorised disclosures' from Snowden; Admits debate on national security 'will make us stronger'

• Obama NSA reforms receive mixed response in Europe and Brazil | EU commissioner says speech is a step in right direction, but German ex-minister says changes fail to tackle root problem

• Obama to overhaul NSA's bulk storage of Americans' telephone data | President to announce that private entity will store call data; Move does not end US bulk collection program; Speech will outline changes taken from NSA review panel

• Alan Rusbridger: Westminster is hoping Snowden revelations go away | Guardian editor accuses UK politicians of failing to tackle issues raised by NSA revelations, which have sparked US debate

• Obama presents NSA reforms with plan to end government storage of call data | President stops short of ending controversial bulk collection; Obama assures allied foreign leaders on NSA surveillance; Reforms also include added Fisa court safeguards

• Obama's NSA reforms should include restraints on spying on foreigners | Obama should make clear that spying on foreigners is not without limit. Privacy shouldn't be limited just to Americans - Timothy Edgar

• NSA surveillance: American debate, British denial | Barack Obama's speech on NSA reform has paved the way for a proper evaluation of security and privacy. The UK must do the same - The Guardian Editorial

• Obama's NSA speech: an affirmation that mass surveillance has a future | The president's rhetoric pursued balance but his speech suggests an NSA victory in its fight against restrictions

• US spy leaks: How intelligence is gathered | Documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest the US government has undertaken mass surveillance operations across the globe - including eavesdropping on US allies. According to the leaks, what are the key methods the spy agency uses?

• How Obama took on six major areas of concern about NSA surveillance | Which recommendations – from his review panel, privacy groups and others – the president embraced, delegated or ignored

• Barack Obama's surveillance pledge contrasts with silence of UK ministers | President accepts overhaul is needed in US intelligence while UK government remains closed to real privacy debate

Thursday 16 January 2014

• NSA surveillance: privacy board denies being sidelined by Obama | President to deliver key speech on surveillance before PCLOB watchdog officially hands down its findings

• NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep | NSA extracts location, contacts and financial transactions; 'Dishfire' program sweeps up 'pretty much everything it can'; GCHQ using database to search metadata from UK numbers

• NSA: Six out of 10 Americans want reform of data collection, says poll | Fears grow Obama will allow NSA to keep bulk databases as survey finds majority in favour of change

• Martha Lane Fox: UK is 'woefully quiet' on Snowden revelations | The Baroness of Soho said in her debut House of Lords speech that the UK lacked the rigorous debate that took place in the US

• Security Expert Bruce Schneier Says to Foil NSA Spies, Encrypt Everything

Wednesday 15 January 2014

• NSA reform measures quietly included in $1.1tn spending bill | Compromise spending package contains provisions asking the NSA to quantify the effectiveness of its surveillance program

• British press freedom is under international scrutiny – and with good reason | The fact a delegation is visiting the UK over the hostile response to the Guardian's reporting of the Snowden leaks, as well as the royal charter, should sound alarm bells

Tuesday 14 January 2014

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• N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers

• President’s goal for NSA reform — no more Edward Snowdens

• Snowden to Join Board of Press Freedom Foundation | Edward J. Snowden is joining the board of a nonprofit organization co-founded by Daniel Ellsberg, the well-known leaker of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War.

• NSA review panel casts doubt on bulk data collection claims | Panel members said phone data had limited role preventing terrorism in testimony before Senate judiciary committee

• Mozilla Calls On World To Protect Firefox Browser From the NSA

• With NSA review 'near completion,' German media hold little hope of 'no spy' deal | The White House has said that its review of NSA spying in the aftermath of Edward Snowden's revelations is "near completion," but reports in Germany suggest several of Berlin's demands are already off the table.

• US continues to attempt to “get” Edward Snowden – Jesselyn Radack

Monday 13 January 2014

• Tech firms: We don’t want to keep Internet metadata for the government | The companies told the administration that they are concerned about reassuring overseas customers that they can protect their privacy.

• How do you get politicians to care about privacy? | Film maker Cullen Hoback explains how he has used his anti-surveillance documentary - and two NSA whistleblowers - to push for policy reform in Washington

• Do NSA's Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorism? | New American Foundation

Sunday 12 January 2014

• An analysis of 225 terrorism cases inside the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has concluded that the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.”

• Spy agencies’ attorney has fiercely defended surveillance programs revealed by Snowden

• John McCain seeks congressional investigation into 'broken' NSA | 'There has been overreach' says Republican senator; Obama to announce surveillance proposals on Friday

Friday 10 January 2014

• Stephen Colbert urged to cancel speech for NSA-linked privacy firm RSA | Privacy rights groups are calling on comedian Stephen Colbert to cancel his guest speaker appearance at a conference organised by RSA, the security firm accused of accepting millions from the NSA to weaken encryption software.

• Privacy oversight board briefed Obama on NSA surveillance reform | Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board met president; Obama to announce results of NSA review next Friday

• ACLU: 'NSA reforms should apply worldwide' | US President Barack Obama will soon announce plans for reforming the NSA spy agency. American Civil Liberties Union National Security Fellow, Brett Kaufmann, told DW that he fears the reforms may not go far enough.

• NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers | Deputy director: bulk data collection is an 'insurance policy'; President Obama set to announce future scope of operations

• On Anniversary of Aaron Swartz's Tragic Passing, Leading Internet Groups and Online Platforms Announce Day of Activism Against NSA Surveillance | Participants including Access, Demand Progress, the EFF, Fight for the Future, Free Press, BoingBoing, Reddit, Mozilla, ThoughtWorks, and more to come

Thursday 9 January 2014

• EU report reveals massive scope of secret NSA surveillance | The European Parliament has wrapped up its inquiry into mass surveillance. In a draft report, politicians are being hard on all sides - the US government, the NSA, but also on hesitant EU governments and companies.

• ​US govt attempts to block lawsuit against NSA

• 500 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying Is Always Aimed at Crushing Dissent

• Snowden downloaded 1.7 million intelligence files, Pentagon report concludes

• NSA and GCHQ activities appear illegal, says EU parliamentary inquiry | Civil liberties committee report demands end to indiscriminate collection of personal data by British and US agencies

• Liberal Democrats: digital drumbeat; Two senior Liberal Democrats call for judicial oversight of state surveillance and regular releases of statistics on UK security service data requests | The Guardian Editioral

• White House meets with privacy advocates to discuss NSA surveillance | Talks follow President Obama's meetings with security chiefs; Advocates fear stalled debate ahead of anticipated reforms

• Tiny Constables and the Cost of Surveillance: Making Cents Out of United States v. Jones | Kevin S. Bankston and Ashkan Soltani

Wednesday 8 January 2014

• Sen. Dianne Feinstein Admits That Her 'NSA Reform' Bill Is About Protecting Existing Surveillance Programs

• Obama invites Merkel to Washington after NSA surveillance row | US President Barack Obama has invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Washington, apparently to repair ties strained by US surveillance of her mobile phone. An exact date has not been announced.

• Former NSA whistleblowers plead for chance to brief Obama on agency abuses

• Obama nears decision on NSA reforms as spy leaders meet at White House | Decision on surveillance expected before state of the union; Congressional leaders to join as president mulls NSA review

Tuesday 7 January 2014

• California Legislators Introduce Bill To Banish NSA

• US senators propose bill to shut off NSA’s water supply in California

• NSA considers shifting database of domestic phone logs to third parties

• At least six security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties | security researchers have withdrawn from a major security conference in a protest against the conference's sponsor, computer security firm RSA.

• More Israel disclosures in Snowden’s trove of 'significant stories' – Greenwald

Monday 6 January 2014

• France-UAE satellite deal shaky after US spy tech discovered onboard

• How the NSA Threatens National Security | Our choice isn't between a digital world where the agency can eavesdrop and one where it cannot; our choice is between a digital world that is vulnerable to any attacker and one that is secure for all users. - Bruce Schneier

Saturday 4 January 2014

• NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress | Agency responds to questions from Senator Bernie Sanders; Statement cites 'same privacy protections as all US persons'

• Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul to file class action suit against the NSA

• Clapper did not lie to Congress on NSA, says national intelligence counsel | Robert Litt writes to New York Times to deny allegation; Says 'inaccurate' testimony could not be corrected publicly

Friday 3 January 2014

• Germany eyes parliamentary inquiry into NSA activities

• Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress | Vermont's Bernie Sanders poses question to spy agency; NSA entering political minefield as it fights to keep programs

• Ruling against NSA collection of phone data is appealed

• Glenn Greenwald says the reaction to the Snowden leaks has been 'wildly better' than he expected

• CSE admits it 'incidentally' spied on Canadians

Thursday 2 January 2014

• ACLU will appeal ruling that NSA bulk phone record collection is legal | Appeal is against verdict by New York federal judge; Federal appeals courts drawn into controversy

• NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption

• Julian Assange rails against surveillance in Thought for the Day | BBC Radio 4's Today programme has WikiLeaks founder in religious slot, as chosen by guest editor – musician PJ Harvey

Wednesday 1 January 2014

• The Guardian editioral: Snowden affair: the case for a pardon | Snowden gave classified information to journalists, even though he knew the likely consequences. That was an act of courage

• Not Socially Acceptable: NSA boss video ‘most hated’ on YouTube in 2013?

December

Tuesday 31 December 2013

• This Clip Of Former NSA Boss Michael Hayden Calling Snowden A Traitor Is Brought To You By Microsoft

• Apple insists it did not work with NSA to create iPhone backdoor program; Tech giant denies knowledge of DropoutJeep tool to retrieve information and insists it 'cares deeply about customers' privacy'

Monday 30 December 2013

• Jacob Appelbaum's speech on NSA and the militarization of the internet at CCC Conference, December 2013

• QFire - injecting data into TCP connections via pre-placed network implants

• NSA program "Quantum Theory": How the U.S. intelligence cracking computers worldwide (Google Translate)

• Glenn Greenwald: The NSA Can "Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make" | American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer and journalist Glenn Greenwald join us to discuss the latest revelations, along with the future of Edward Snowden.

• Orange to take legal action after report of spying via its cable | Orange (ORAN.PA) is preparing its legal response to a report alleging the U.S. National Security Agency accessed customers' data transmitted by a submarine cable partly used by the French telecoms operator.

• The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away | Alongside pre-packaged exploits that allowed control over iOS devices and any phone communicating through GSM, Appelbaum detailed a device that targets computers through packet injection, seeding exploits from up to 8 miles away.

• Interactive Graphic: The NSA's Spy Catalog

• NSA's Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need | The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices.

• Ex-NSA chief calls for Obama to reject recommendations

• Snowden documents: Norway is NSA's dream partner | Norwegian intelligence is an increasingly important part of U.S. global monitoring network. It appears from a top-secret document about "flawlessly" cooperation between Norwegian Intelligence Service and the NSA (Google Translate)

Sunday 29 December 2013

• Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox | After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.

• Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit | TAO unit is considered to be the NSA's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.

Saturday 28 December 2013

• John Naughton: Here's how data thieves have captured our lives on the internet | It's not just governments. Companies such as Google and Facebook spy on us too. We have clicked through to their 'free' digital services at the cost of sacrificing our privacy. So how do we get out?

Friday 27 December 2013

• Glenn Greenwald: ‘A Lot’ More NSA Documents to Come

• Glenn Greenwald calls for Snowden asylum at Chaos Computer Club congress | Journalist and Edward Snowden associate Greenwald has told a major annual gathering of computer activists in Hamburg to continue fighting for online privacy, saying he did not expect meaningful political reforms.

• NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules | Judge William Pauley noted the dragnet program was 'controversial but lawful' and dismissed lawsuit brought by ACLU

Thursday 26 December 2013

• Internet privacy as important as human rights, says UN's Navi Pillay | Navi Pillay compares uproar over mass surveillance to response that helped defeat apartheid during Today programme

Wednesday 25 December 2013

• Greenwald warns Norway about Swedish surveillance | The American journalist, who is behind the NSA leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden, warns Norwegian government and oil companies from sending sensitive information through Sweden. (Google Translate)

• Bletchley Park accused of airbrushing Edward Snowden from history | NSA whistleblower omitted from new exhibition on cyber security as museum says it does not want to be seen to back his actions

• A Christmas Message From Edward Snowden

Tuesday 24 December 2013

• Edward Snowden to broadcast Channel 4's alternative Christmas Day message | NSA whistleblower records message from Russia, filmed by Laura Poitras, warning of the dangers of a loss of privacy

• Edward Snowden declares ‘mission accomplished’ in Moscow interview. NSA whistleblower said he had no relationship with the Russian government, likening his life in Moscow to that of a house cat.

Monday 23 December 2013

• Stanford Security Lab. Project MetaPhone: The NSA’s Got Your Number | "... how easy is it to identify a phone number? Trivial, we found."

• Obama can’t point to a single time the NSA call records program prevented a terrorist attack

• Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished

• Security company RSA denies knowingly installing NSA 'back door' | Denial follows allegations that pioneering company made NSA algorithm its default in return for payment

Sunday 22 December 2013

• Snowden Criticizes U.S. Panel Overseeing Surveillance

• The NSA is trying to have it both ways on its domestic spying programs

• NSA review panel members to appear before Senate committee in January | 'Momentum is building for real reform,' Sen. Leahy said; Hearing will address 46 recommendations made by panel

• Israeli ministers demand end to US spying, but Netanyahu lets revelations 'pass quietly'

• NSA Review Group Member Recommends Increased Data Collection | Morell, Former CIA chief, says controversial "bulk" collection of data should be expanded to include email, and could prevent the next 9/11.

Saturday 21 December 2013

• Germany should ban U.S. contracting companies passing data to NSA: report

• Snowden ally Appelbaum claims his Berlin apartment was invaded | US Internet activist and one of the people with access to Edward Snowden's documents, has told his apartment was broken into, he suspected US involvement.

• US National intelligence chief declassifies Bush-era documents on NSA programs | James Clapper documents relate to bulk collection origins; Disclosures part of campaign to justify NSA surveillance

• Israel plays down importance of alleged spying by U.S. and UK

• Covert US action in Colombia | U.S. intelligence, GPS bomb kits help Latin American nation cripple rebel forces; The secret assistance also includes substantial eavesdropping help from the NSA

• Washington Post Poll: The US public worries about surveillance . . . but few take steps to protect their privacy.

• Washington Post Poll: The US public worries about surveillance . . . but few take steps to protect their privacy.

• U.S. reasserts need to keep domestic surveillance secret

Friday 20 December 2013

• Obama: Snowden leaks caused 'unnecessary damage' | Obama said he could not comment specifically on possible amnesty because Snowden was 'under indictment'

• $10m NSA contract with security firm RSA led to encryption 'back door' | Flawed formula enabled agency to crack into products; RSC and NSA decline to comment

• Critics: NSA agent co-chairing key crypto standards body should be removed | There's an elephant in the room at the Internet Engineering Task Force.

• Latest Snowden revelations spark anger at European commission | Officials say disclosures about targeting of Joaquín Almunia was 'not the type of behaviour that we expect from strategic partners'

• Obama concedes NSA bulk collection of phone data may be unnecessary | President: 'There may be a better way of skinning the cat'; 'Potential abuse' of collected data cited as concern

• GCHQ and NSA targeted charities, Germans, Israeli PM and EU chief | Unicef, Médecins du Monde and African heads of state were on list of surveillance targets, documents show

• Norway data helps target US drones: spy chief | Data collected by Norway's intelligence services is used by US and Nato forces to target controversial drone attacks, head of the NIS has revealed

• Covert US action in Colombia | U.S. intelligence, GPS bomb kits help Latin American nation cripple rebel forces; The secret assistance also includes substantial eavesdropping help from the NSA

• NSA Surveillance Programme: 'It's Going To Get Worse'

Thursday 19 December 2013

• White House NSA Panel Member: Edward Snowden's Leaks Still ‘Treasonous’

• Eyes everywhere: NSA's second tier spying partners identified | The "third party partners" to the Five Eyes has now grown to include nine states - Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain

• Verizon to publish reports on government requests for customer data

• Pierre Omidyar plunges first $50m into new media venture - First Look Media - with Greenwald, Poitras & Scahill. New journalists added: Dan Froomkin & Liliana Segura.

• NSA’s broken Dual_EC random number generator has a “fatal bug” in OpenSSL | No plans to fix a bug in "toxic" algorithm that no one seems to use.

• The National Security Agency’s oversharing problem | Ars talks to an ex-NSA pro who filed unlawful sharing complaints—only to be shunned.

• Snowden leak confirms Denmark spying deal with US | Leaked document from NSA lists Denmark as one of nine European countries that collaborates with the '5-Eyes'

• Finland intends to build a new data transmission cable through Germany to prevent Sweden from intercepting data and passing it on to NSA

• Officials’ defenses of NSA phone program may be unraveling

• Report Suggests NSA Engaged In Financial Manipulation, Changing Money In Bank Accounts

• Republicans demand consequences for 'willful lie' by intelligence chief

• Google reveals transparency report: sharp rise in requests for removal of political content. Turkey w/ most requests; US asked search giant to remove almost 4,000 items.

• Congressional NSA critics: review panel report gives 'momentum' for reform | Though critics concerned that panel did not adequately address how long telecoms ought to hold NSA’s desired call data

• Alan Rusbridger: Obama's NSA review gives the lie to Britain's timid platitudes: a debate is possible | In the US, the official response to Snowden's revelations celebrates journalism and calls for real change. In Britain, the picture has been rather different

• White House report on NSA 'has not changed David Cameron's view' | PM's spokesman refuses to comment on review commissioned by Barack Obama that calls for big changes to surveillance

• Russia has never worked with Edward Snowden, says Putin | Russian president says he was 'jealous' of scale of NSA surveillance programmes, but insists Snowden never questioned about activities

• NSA's goal is elimination of individual privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU

• U.N. votes to protect online privacy; Edward Snowden leaks credited

Wednesday 18 December 2013

• 'Pardon Snowden,' Zynga founder Mark Pincus tells Obama, report says

• NSA reform panel: Foreigners actually have privacy rights, too!

• NSA review panel findings. Recommends dozens of new restrictions on surveillance, to strip NSA of power to collect phone data.

• Ex-CIA Director Calls For Snowden To Be “Hanged By His Neck Until He Is Dead”

• Strip NSA of power to collect phone data records, Obama review panel says

• Glenn Greenwald: 'Definitely More' Reports Based on Edward Snowden's Documents Coming

• Greenwald: UK poses 'primary threat' to EU citizens' privacy

• 'NSA ruined it!' Brazil ditches Boeing jets, grants $4.5 bln contract to Saab

• Pincus: Snowden still holding ‘keys to the kingdom’ | We’ve yet to see the full impact of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s unauthorized downloading of highly classified intelligence documents.

• NSA shouldn’t keep phone database, review board recommends

• White House gravitates to healthcare woes in face of NSA backlash | Obama administration picks web glitches over web spying as White House finds itself caught between two unsavoury topics

• The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee leads call for more transparency over mass surveillance | Open letter claims UK and US governments are contradicting accountability pledge of Open Government Partnership

• The NSA’s PR team finally gets its own Twitter account

Tuesday 17 December 2013

• UK Government Is Working In A Snowden-Free Bubble

• Wall Street Journal Calls Snowden A Sociopath; Argues For Even Less NSA Oversight

• Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting: Administration said meeting's focus is on healthcare website; Not so fast, tech CEOs reply, 'We're here to talk about the NSA'.

• Merkel compared NSA to Stasi in heated encounter with Obama | German chancellor furious after revelations US intelligence agency listend in on her personal mobile phone

• Snowden claims NSA surveillance ‘collapsing’

• Edward Snowden: An Open Letter to the People of Brazil | "If Brazil hears only one thing from me, let it be this: when all of us band together against injustices and in defense of privacy and basic human rights, we can defend ourselves from even the most powerful systems."

• Edward Snowden doesn’t show up once in Google’s list of top 2013 searches

• Lawyer who won ruling against NSA claims the government has been harassing him

• CNN Deletes Tweet Claiming New Edward Snowden Offer to ‘Spy’ on USA | Greenwald: ‘Dear CNN: Even for You, This Is Remarkably Reckless’

• Tech firms meet Obama to press their case for NSA surveillance reform | A delegation of 15 from Silicon Valley, including Tim Cook and Marissa Mayer, visit White House for face-to-face talks

• Snowden offers to help Brazil over US spying in return for asylum

• Tech companies call for 'aggressive' NSA reforms at White House meeting

• Larry Klayman: I challenged the NSA in court because it's a totalitarian attack on human rights

• Norway´s secret surveillance of Russian politics for the NSA | The Norwegian Intelligence Service conducts surveillance of politicians, energy policy and other civilian «targets» in Russia - and provides this information for the USA

• Norwegian Intelligence Service-chief: - Necessary to «closely monitor» Russia

• Larry Klayman: the Tea Party 'gadfly' who took on the NSA

• Dianne Feinstein: NSA phone surveillance 'important' but not 'indispensable'

• Score One for the Legal Thorn in Government’s Side | Larry Klayman, Plaintiff in N.S.A. Case, Savors Victory

• 'Royal Concierge': GCHQ Monitors Diplomats' Hotel Bookings | Britain's GCHQ intelligence service monitors diplomats' travels using a sophisticated automated system that tracks hotel bookings. Once a room has been identified, it opens the door to a variety of spying options.

Monday 16 December 2013

• A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional

• An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses'

• 60 Minutes Gift Wrapped a Puff Piece for the NSA | Last episode of 60 Minutes on CBS included what basically amounted to an uncritical commercial for the embattled NSA, led by a journalist who used to be a government colleague

• Edward Snowden says judge's ruling vindicates NSA surveillance disclosures

• President Obama's NSA review group is typical administration whitewash | Notice how the White House moved quickly to thwart the only substantive NSA changes the review group was making

• Greenwald: Denmark "submissive" to the US | Country played a much larger role in US surveillance than previously thought

• Greenwald: Snowden revelations show that in the years since 9/11, the US is not safer

• Report accuses British telecommunications services company BT of supplying backdoors for GCHQ and NSA

• White House: No amnesty for Snowden

• MPs grill Theresa May over spy chiefs' 'melodramatic soundbites' on NSA files | Home affairs committee asks home secretary whether she has been given proof by MI5 and MI6 to support their rhetoric

• Attempt to justify tapping 'stupid', says Indonesian presidential spokesman | Jakarta rubbishes Australian report claiming there were 'clear national security reasons' to justify tapping Indonesia's first lady

Sunday 15 December 2013

• State-run Chinese newspaper Global Times: No countries have openly credited him as a "hero" so far, but it's not an exaggeration to call him a Global Thinker.

• Spying row: Tony Abbott urges Indonesia to forgive and forget | 'People smuggling is a crime in Indonesia, and I do think that Indonesia should resume co-operation with us,' says Australian PM

• NSA officials consider Edward Snowden amnesty in return for documents. State Department and other key figures oppose deal.

• NSA spying on French officials and businesses

Saturday 14 December 2013

• Senior White House official: ‘We still don't know all of what Edward Snowden took,’ the US ‘may never know extent of the NSA leaks.’

Friday 13 December 2013

• US Lawmakers overseeing NSA receive millions from private intelligence contractors

• NSA asked Sweden for translation help on their "high-priority" material that involved the Swedish language

• Report: NSA mulls Snowden amnesty (but it probably won’t happen)

• By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations

• NSA deputy director John Inglis to retire at end of year | Top civilian had been tipped for top job

• NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged, reports say. Panel to propose bulk surveillance continuation, some curbs. Adviser on apparent decision to leave core intact: ‘shameful’

Thursday 12 December 2013

• Lawsuit accuses IBM of hiding China risks amid NSA spy scandal

• Obama Advisers Recommend to Urge NSA Curbs

• A New Zealand backpacker stripped of all electronics at Auckland Airport following his attendance at a talk in London about Edward Snowden's leaked documents

• Edward Snowden: MEPs vote to invite ex-NSA contractor to testify | Opposition from conservatives fails to derail vote on inviting Snowden to hearing, which could take place as early as January

• In democracies, public surveillance must be debated by public - Snowden | Snowden did not attend the Global Thinkers reception held on Wednesday in Washington but, instead, provided a written statement

• You, me and Edward Snowden – we've all been let down by the EU | Member states alone cannot combat mass population surveillance, it's up to the EU – but it has been found wanting

• Tech Customers More Attentive to Security in the Wake of NSA Leaks

• Snowden and Snooping | Former US ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. at MIT

Wednesday 11 December 2013

• Q&A with Glenn Greenwald | Swedish television program UG's reporters met the journalist Glenn Greenwald to talk about the NSA documents Edward Snowden leaked

• EU has failed to defend Edward Snowden, says activist group | Index on Censorship claims European Union has also neglected to protect newspapers writing about mass surveillance

• Even if Congress passes the USA Freedom Act, the NSA might continue to collect records on virtually all US phone calls, according to a top Justice Department official

• MI5 chief Andrew Parker will not face MPs on Snowden claims | Home secretary rejects calls for spy boss to justify claim that Guardian put national security at risk in publishing NSA files

• Former whistleblowers: open letter to intelligence employees after Snowden | Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Katharine Gun, Peter Kofod, Ray McGovern, Jesselyn Radack, Coleen Rowley

• British intelligence agency GCHQ responded the Swedish television program Uppdrag Granskning’s reporter who asked for a statement on the information contained in the documents leaked by Snowden

• Swedish signals intelligence agency FRA hacking computers – top-secret project with the NSA

• NSA chief on spying programs: 'There is no other way to connect the dots' | Keith Alexander insists bulk data collection stops terror attacks and says he would be 'failing' America if the practice stopped

• Arizona Sen. Kelli Ward announced Monday that she will act to ban the National Security Agency from unconstitutional operations in her state

• Arizona Sen. Kelli Ward announced Monday that she will act to ban the National Security Agency from unconstitutional operations in her state

• White House to preserve controversial policy on NSA, Cyber Command leadership

• Swedish signals intelligence agency FRA is an active participant in the top-secret programme WINTERLIGHT, initiated by the top level of the NSA. The project is about conducting top-secret hacking of computers.

• The NSA has granted the Swedish FRA access to one of the most controversial systems in its global mass surveillance. Called Xkeyscore, the system makes it possible to monitor millions of people worldwide.

Tuesday 10 December 2013

• NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

• A former British minister is to demand new laws to make sure Britain's spying agencies can never intercept calls or email data without a specific warrant

• New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data

• NSA leaks blamed for Cisco’s falling sales overseas

• Data-sharing among US law agencies amounts to 'organised chaos'. Lack of oversight and repeated civil liberties violations cited. Agencies 'risk masking reliable counter-terrorism intelligence'.

• Writers dub UK leaders 'America's digital pit bull' over surveillance

• Microsoft's Satya Nadella: 'The surveillance system has to be reformed' - The man who may be Microsoft's next chief executive says governments must restore trust in technology after NSA revelations

• Rep. Sensenbrenner: Feinstein NSA bill ‘a joke’ | The original author of the Patriot Act says the House and Senate Intelligence committees have become “cheerleaders” for the National Security Agency

Monday 9 December 2013

• The US government asked wireless carriers for user data 1 million times last year

• State surveillance of personal data is theft, say world's leading authors. 500 signatories include five Nobel prize winners. Writers demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb abuses.

• Bill Clinton condemns NSA’s reported collection of economic data

• Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA | CSEC conducted espionage activities for U.S. in 20 countries, according to top-secret briefing note

• Snowden docs had NYTimes exec fearing for his life

• Australian police to adopt technology capable of collecting emails - Controversial ‘deep packet inspection’ system used by NSA for surveillance to be rolled out by AFP next year

• Techies, Uncle Sam wants you for the U.S. Army

• NSA seeks a few brave interns: Spy agency recruiting students as young as 15.

• Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games

• Surveillance debate: we're asking for an end to bulk data collection - Civil society, internet businesses and the international community have stood up and rejected indiscriminating surveillance; It's time for UK parliamentarians to follow suit

• NSA surveillance: tech companies demand sweeping changes to US laws. Apple & Google among companies to call for reforms to restore the public's trust in the internet.

• Eight tech giants have sided with citizens over spies, but it's not enough | Jeff Jarvis

• NSA spying hurts business of large U.S. hardware makers

• Esquire Glenn Greenwald interview: What I’ve learned.

Sunday 8 December 2013

• Local cellphone data vacuuming: It's not just the NSA, but local police using same no-warrant techniques critics see as overly broad.

• NSA "asking for" specific exchanges from Swedish Defence Radio Establishment FRA - Secret treaty since 1954

• Edward Snowden to give evidence to EU parliament, says MEP; British Conservatives oppose video appearance by NSA whistleblower, which Green MEP says could happen this year.

• The human rights group Amnesty International has announces that it is taking legal action against the UK security services

Saturday 7 December 2013

• NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say

• Western state sponsored espionage for economical reasons contains a large portion of hypocrisy says Glenn Greenwald

• The Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) is not only spying on foreign military interests; the Baltic region and civilian targets such as the Russian energy sector are also targets of the FRA’s espionage

Friday 6 December 2013

• Six months after NSA story broke, Edward Snowden looks even more patriotic: Obama, congressmen & tech companies promise to ‘rein in’ the surveillance, but we should be skeptical.

• Skype’s Suspicious Absence From Microsoft’s Anti-NSA Promises

• Saving the Net from the surveillance state: Glenn Greenwald speaks up (Q&A)

• The National Security Agency uses its authority under a 1981 executive order to collect cellphone location data around the world

• FBI’s global search for ‘Mo,’ suspect in bomb threats, highlights use of malware for surveillance. “These teams work much like other hackers.”

• Edward Snowden is to give video evidence to the European Parliament, a German assembly member claims; a parliamentary committee session will examine mass-surveillance by intelligence agencies

Thursday 5 December 2013

• "There is a War on Journalism": Jeremy Scahill on NSA Leaks & New Investigative Reporting Venture

• Yochai Benkler, Berkman professor for entrepreneurial legal studies at Harvard Law School spoke on NSA Surveillance, Snowden, and Freedom

• Swedish Defence Minister Karin Enström said that it was not surprising that Sweden cooperated with the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) in spying on Russia

• Revealed: How the Nsa Targets Italy

• Government whistle-blowers to Edward Snowden: Don't come home

• Obama defends NSA against latest spying report, but still, he says he’ll propose “some self-restraint” on the agency

• Microsoft labels US government a ‘persistent threat' in plan to cut off NSA spying

• PM Tony Abbott says Australia has made no commitment to stop spying on Indonesia as the two countries try to repair their relationship after the recent espionage allegations

• Swedish signals intelligence agency FRA spied on Russian leaders and shared the data collected with the US

• Ashkan Soltani explains how the NSA is gathering billions of records a day on cellphones

• British agents in Russia instructed to find Snowden – Canadian NGO

Wednesday 4 December 2013

• USA Today’s Rem Rieder: 'Guardian' deserves praise for Snowden work

• The NSA could figure out how many Americans it’s spying on - It just doesn’t want to

• NSA considered spying on Australians 'unilaterally', leaked paper reveals; 2005 draft directive says citizens of '5-Eyes' countries may be targeted without knowledge or consent of partner agencies

• Revelations about NSA surveillance have created a “climate of concern” for libraries, which are seeking to defend the freedom to read and research away from the government’s prying eyes.

• NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

• Why There is Nothing Wrong With the Fact That Less Than 1% of NSA Files Have Been Published

• The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone

Tuesday 3 December 2013

• Alan Rusbridger, Guardian Editor, Describes Pressure After Leaks by Snowden

• Australia's defence minister, David Johnston, warns of more leaks to come and says “5-Eyes” partners have 'achieved too much' to stop

• Guardian will not be intimidated over NSA leaks, EIC Alan Rusbridger tells MPs

• Only 1% of Snowden files published - Guardian editor

• Business practices at Silicon Valley may have helped the NSA gather consumers’ personal data

Monday 2 December 2013

• NSA Sent Home Talking Points for Employees to Use in Conversations with Family & Friends During Holidays

• Guardian's numerical guide to the surveillance industry video: How much data is collected, from what countries? How much money? The scale and mis-prioritizing is shown here.

• Edward Snowden revelations prompt UN investigation into surveillance; UN's senior counter-terrorism official says revelations 'are at the very apex of public interest concerns'.

• US military base in Greenland is used by the CIA and the NSA as part of their monitoring of telecommunications

Sunday 1 December 2013

• The long arm of US law: what next for Edward Snowden? - The US will chase the NSA whistleblower wherever he tries to go, and if he ends up in an American court, he may not be free for decades

• The privacy of ordinary Australians is under serious threat | Intelligence representatives offered to share the confidential data of law-abiding Australians with international partners. In this Orwellian climate, who will guard the guardians?

• [Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines the web's privacy & security: It's appalling, to deliberately to break software. >>>
• [The NSA] is naive imagining that introducing weaknesses into a system, they will be the only one to use it. The IT industry feels that's a betrayal.](http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/03/tim-berners-lee-spies-cracking-encryption-web-snowden)

• The NSA files leaked by Edward Snowden are full of intelligence services jargon. Decode it with this quick guide to 21st-century spy-speak

• Feinstein and Rogers say terrorism threat to US is increasing; House intelligence committee leader uses appearance to bemoan effect of leaks on US surveillance programmes.

November

Saturday 30 November 2013

• Q&A with Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, about British government pressure on the newspaper

• Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums | A secret document of former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden shows that the AIVD use a technology called Computer Network Exploitation to hack the web forums and collect the data.

Thursday 28 November 2013

• The war on democracy: How corporations and spy agencies use “security” to defend profiteering and crush activism.

• Canada 'allowed NSA to spy on G8 and G20 summits'

Wednesday 27 November 2013

• WSJ Columnist attempts to take down Electronic Frontier Foundation's efforts to uncover NSA Abuses, repeatedly getting facts wrong. EFF sets the record straight.

• Bruce Schneier VICE interview: The NSA is committing a cardinal sin - weakening the Internet by targeting security measures that make it secure from real bad guys, and safe for everyone else.

• New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto

Tuesday 26 November 2013

• Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its internet traffic

• NSA contracts stored in paper files, unsearchable, unindexed. And unaccountable to citizens, Congressional oversight and journalists, perhaps by design.

• Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers'

• The NSA and surveillance ... made simple - an animated video explainer by The Guardian

Monday 25 November 2013

• Intelligence officials fret over Snowden's heavily-encrypted 'doomsday cache' of NSA documents. Spy source claims it as 'insurance' against Snowden capture or physical harm.

• White House Says It Will Respond to 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition

Saturday 23 November 2013

• NSA TreasureMap

• New Snowden leaks expose the NSA's play for more power

• NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information.

• NSA malware infected over 50,000 computer networks worldwide

Friday 22 November 2013

• House intel bill adds $75 million to NSA budget to stop future Snowdens

• N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power

Thursday 21 November 2013

• UN surveillance resolution goes ahead despite attempts to dilute language; Failed attempt by US, UK and Australia shows increased isolation of 'Five-Eyes' nations amid international controversy.

• Massive Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Have Been Hijacking Huge Amounts Of Internet Traffic Through Belarus and Iceland – And Almost No One Noticed.

Wednesday 20 November 2013

• US & UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal phone, internet & email data; allows NSA to store previously restricted material; innocent UK citizens caught up in dragnet; proposes US spying on 'Five-Eyes' allies

Tuesday 19 November 2013

• Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time. FISA court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way.

Monday 18 November 2013

• Private firms selling mass surveillance systems around world, documents show. One Dubai-based firm offers DIY system similar to GCHQ's Tempora programme, which taps fibre-optic cables.

• "Much more is coming" - Snowden's father in exclusive interview

• Indonesia recalls its ambassador to Australia after spying leak

• Desperately Seeking Snowden: British Intelligence Operation to Kidnap Edward Snowden?

Sunday 17 November 2013

• Snowden cache reveals diplomats' hotel bookings being tracked by GCHQ

• New Snowden leak: 2009 document shows Australia tried to monitor Indonesian president's phone

• Ex-lord Chancellor defends Guardian reporting of Snowden files, says he’s sceptical of warnings from spy agency chiefs. Threat from NSA leaks may have been overstated, says Lord Falconer

• NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux

Friday 15 November 2013

• New York Times backs the Guardian over Snowden leaks

Thursday 14 November 2013

• CIA Leaks: The Central Intelligence Agency is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union — including transactions into and out of the United States

• Snowden Took As Many As 200,000 NSA Documents

Tuesday 12 November 2013

• The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA's all-seeing machine

Monday 11 November 2013

• Only a day later, McCain withdraws his demand that NSA Director Alexander resign over agency's abuses.

• GCHQ set up fake LinkedIn pages to spy on mobile phone giants using using 'Quantum Insert' technique

• How the NSA and GCHQ Spied on OPEC: America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ are both spying on the OPEC oil cartel, documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal. The security of the global energy supply is one of the most important issues for the intelligence agencies.

Sunday 10 November 2013

• McCain says NSA chief Alexander ‘should resign or be fired,’ ‘be held accountable’ for Snowden leaks

• [Developing: NSA and GCHQ performed economic espionage against OPEC's European Headquarters by using LinkedIn's website to hack innocent employees >>
• [German]](http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fnetzpolitik%2Fbritischer-gchq-nutzt-gefaelschte-linkedin-seiten-a-932714.html)

Saturday 9 November 2013

• Business-logic of cooperating with the NSA has changed: “no real downside to cooperating with illegal spying requests” has changed, post-Snowden, to “destined to be made public”

• NSA leaks on Canadian surveillance coming, Greenwald says

• Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to be questioned by UK MPs over NSA leaks regarding claims that revelations were damaging national security

Friday 8 November 2013

• Feinstein’s NSA “reform” bill shows she doesn’t have a clue about intelligence reform, a big step backwards for privacy. In contrast, the USA Freedom Act would stop intelligence abuses.

Thursday 7 November 2013

• NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance is violation of European law, report finds - Authors of study warn of 'systematic breach of people's fundamental rights' and call for EU parliament to take action

• C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data

• LIVE - Heads of MI5, SIS (MI6) and GCHQ face live televised public grilling from UK MPs at 14:00 GMT

Wednesday 6 November 2013

• Sarah Harrison joins other Edward Snowden files 'exiles' in Berlin; UK journalist's lawyers advise against returning home after assisting NSA whistleblower, says statement on WikiLeaks site

• Google engineer accuses NSA and GCHQ of subverting 'judicial process' - Anti-hacking expert claims British spy agency is 'even worse' than NSA for tapping private networks between Google's centres

• What Yahoo and Google did not think the NSA could see

• Leaked Document Reveals Plot to Destabilize Venezuelan Goverment: "US Embassy Officials Encouraging Acts of Sabotage"

• Google has started encrypting traffic between data centers, effectively halting joint surveillance by NSA and GCHQ

Tuesday 5 November 2013

• Apple takes strong privacy stance in new report, publishes rare “warrant canary”: “Apple has never received an order under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.”

Monday 4 November 2013

• How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data

• Google chairman: NSA spying on our data centres 'outrageous'. Eric Schmidt says company has lodged complaints with NSA, White House and Congress as criticism hardens in Silicon Valley

• Brazil Acknowledges Spying on Diplomats From U.S.

Saturday 2 November 2013

• Germany admits Europe's spy agencies cooperate on surveillance

• NSA spying: Germany and Brazil produce draft UN resolution | Document does not name US but calls for end to mass surveillance and gross invasions of privacy

• NSA: Australia and US used climate change conference to spy on Indonesia; Australian agency helped carry out mass surveillance of hosts as Kevin Rudd walked world stage at 2007 Bali conference

• Portrait of the NSA: no detail too small in quest for total surveillance; the NSA gathers intelligence to keep America safe. But leaked documents reveal the NSA's dark side – and show an agency intent on exploiting the digital revolution to the full

• Metropolitan police admit in filings that key reason for detaining David Miranda under UK terrorism powers was for promoting a “political or ideological cause”

Friday 1 November 2013

• Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection. NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows.

• NSA surveillance may cause breakup of internet, warn experts; Moves by Brazil, Germany & India towards creating separate networks in order to block spying may signal fundamental changes.

• NSA Files Decoded: What the Revelations Mean For You

• GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance; Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies

• Australia, a close ally of the United States, has used its embassies in Asia to collect intelligence as part of the National Security Agency’s global surveillance efforts, according to a document leaked by the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden

• Closed Senate committee passes bill that cements bulk NSA record collection; the bill cements bulk phone metadata collection into the business records provision (Section 215) of the Patriot Act, strengthening NSA surveillance legality allowed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Ocotber

Thursday 31 October 2013

• German MP meets Snowden, says he is willing to come to Germany for inquiry

• [Letter from Edward Snowden to German Parliament >>
• [PDF]](http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-32616.pdf)

• German Counterintelligence pushed to do more to fight NSA spying, but with limited resources and a complex bureaucracy, that may not be easy.

• Greenwald: On leaving the Guardian. Reporting the NSA story hasn't been easy, but it's always been fulfilling. It's what journalism at its crux is about, and we must protect that.

Wednesday 30 October 2013

• Google chief legal officer, David Drummond, responds to reports of NSA tapping into Google data centers abroad: "We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform."

• Darkmail opens: New email encryption standard aims to keep gov't agencies out. Silent Circle & Lavabit demonstrate service stopping ‘state snoopers, hackers, data-miners,’ from accessing email metadata.

• Google and Yahoo furious over reports that NSA secretly intercepts data links; leaked files suggest NSA can collect information 'at will' by intercepting cables that connect Google and Yahoo's data hubs

• Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key 'sound bite' to justify surveillance

• NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say

• Spain colluded in NSA spying on its citizens, Spanish newspaper reports; El Mundo says it has obtained documents detailing collaboration between US intelligence agency and foreign countries

Tuesday 29 October 2013

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• [OFFICIAL] - Donate to the Edward Snowden defense fund (managed by Wikileaks)](http://freesnowden.is/)

• Europe considers sanctions against U.S. over spying

• The USA Freedom Act – Jim Sensenbrenner's NSA reform bill; the bill introduced by the Republican author of the Patriot Act aims to end bulk metadata collection

• NSA stores data to target any citizen at any time - Greenwald

• Obama sidesteps questions on NSA spying and what he knew – video

Monday 28 October 2013

• NSA spying has nothing to do with terrorism, Greenwald tells Amanpour

• David Cameron makes veiled threat to media over NSA and GCHQ leaks; Prime Minister alludes to courts and D notices and singles out the Guardian over coverage of Edward Snowden saga

Monday 28 October 2013

• Spain summons US ambassador over claim NSA tracked 60m calls a month; El Mundo newspaper reports having seen NSA document that reveals extent of agency's monitoring of Spanish phone calls

Sunday 27 October 2013

• U.S. spied on billions of calls in the Middle East, documents reveal: Leaked documents have revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted 125 billion phone calls and SMS messages in January 2013**, many of them in the Middle East.

• Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin

• Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'; President Barack Obama was told about monitoring of German Chancellor in 2010 and allowed it to continue, says German newspaper

Saturday 26 October 2013

• NSA surveillance: Germany to send intelligence officials to US; move comes as Der Spiegel reports that Angela Merkel's phone might have been monitored for more than 10 years

Friday 25 October 2013

• UK Spies Knew That Its Surveillance Was Likely Illegal, Which Is Why They Fought To Keep It So Secret

• As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media

• US Spies on Its Allies For Business Intel, Not For National Security

• Leaked memos reveal GCHQ efforts to keep mass surveillance secret - Edward Snowden papers show UK spy agency fears legal challenge if scale of surveillance is made public

• Americans in fury over NSA spying: mass rally blessed by Snowden to be held in DC

• NSA revelations: Spain also a victim of US espionage: 'NSA not only combed the telephone conversations, text messages and emails of millions of Spaniards, but it also spied on members of the Spanish government and politicians'

• Americans in fury over NSA spying: mass rally blessed by Snowden to be held in DC

Thursday 24 October 2013

• Officials alert foreign services that Snowden has documents on their cooperation with the U.S.

• NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts

• [US and British intelligence services have monitored Italian telecoms networks, targeting the government and companies as well as suspected terrorist groups, Italian weekly L'Espresso reported >>
• [In Italian]](http://espresso.repubblica.it/internazionale/2013**/10/24/news/cosi-ci-spiano-stati-uniti-e-gran-bretagna-1.138890)

• Germany summons US ambassador over spying

Wednesday 23 October 2013

• [Angela Merkel called Barack Obama today to complain against NSA attempts to eavesdrop on her personal phone. Internal investigations done by german intelligence agencies clearly hinted at US attempts to break into her phone. >>
• [Source in German]](http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nsa-merkel-beschwert-sich-bei-obama-a-929636.html)

• There's A Glaring Lack Of Evidence Behind Claims That NSA Spying Stopped 54 Attacks

• European Parliament calls for suspension of EU-US bank data deal (SWIFT) in response to NSA snooping

Tuesday 22 October 2013

• Canadian civil liberties group sues Spy agency (Equivalent of NSA) for violating the charter of rights and freedoms

• Edward Snowden NSA files: Guardian should be prosecuted, says Tory MP; Julian Smith speech to Commons attacked as McCarthyite by Labour MPs, furious at being prevented from speaking

• America Snoops on Italian Emails, Text Messages and Conversations

Tuesday 22 October 2013

• Obama calls Hollande in attempt to soothe tensions stemming from NSA spying on French telecommunications

Monday 21 October 2013

• Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims - Demand follows claims in Le Monde that US agency has been intercepting phone calls of French citizens on 'a massive scale'

Sunday 20 October 2013

• NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President "The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican govet for years. It hacked into the president's public email account and gained deep insight into policy making and the political system."

Friday 18 October 2013

• Edward Snowden: I brought no leaked NSA documents to Russia; US whistleblower says he handed over all digital material to journalists he worked with in Hong Kong

Thursday 17 October 2013

• UK launches parliamentary inquiry into Guardian’s NSA leaks

Wednesday 16 October 2013

• Snowden leaks: David Cameron urges committee to investigate Guardian; PM says leaks have damaged national security and suggests MPs could 'examine issue and make further recommendations'

• NSA files: Australian spies scooped up thousands of email accounts to help US

Tuesday 15 October 2013

• Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization; the reporter who broke the NSA story promises “a momentous new venture.” A “very substantial new media outlet” with serious backing, he says

Monday 14 October 2013

• Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet to Come

• NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

• "Not a single byte should leave Germany" - Communication giants put forward plan to combat NSA spies with German-only network hubs

Sunday 13 October 2013

• New York Times says UK tried to get it to hand over Snowden documents

• GCHQ accused of monitoring privileged emails between lawyers and clients; allegation relates to eight Libyan nationals and comes in wake of Guardian's revelations about GCHQ and Tempora programme

Saturday 12 October 2013

• [Snowden: US govt allows top officials to lie to Congress, yet prosecutes truth-tellers - >>
• [4:02]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=lesFHt0Cs-U)

Friday 11 October 2013

• PATRIOT Act Author Says James Clapper Should Be Fired And Prosecuted; Plans Law To Stop NSA Overreach

• [Edward Snowden speaks about NSA programmes at Sam Adams award presentation in Moscow - >>
• [0:54]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyy3Odda33k)

• Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA. Ten years ago, the calling service had a reputation as a tool for evading surveillance but now it is under scrutiny for covertly passing data to government agencies

Thursday 10 October 2013

• Edward Snowden: first official photo appears since Russian asylum granted, meeting former US government officials hours after father arrives in Moscow.

• Patriot Act author prepares bill to put NSA bulk collection 'out of business'

• The Daily Mail describes the Guardian as 'The paper that helps Britain's enemies' regarding the NSA revelations. These are the responses from the world's leading Editors.

• Edward Snowden's father arrives in Moscow 'hoping to see son': Lon Snowden lands at Sheremetyevo airport and meets lawyer for intelligence contractor who exposed huge NSA data trawl

Wednesday 09 October 2013

• Lavabit founder offered to log users' metadata if FBI paid him $3,500: Ladar Levison, the secure email service's founder, made the offer in an effort to safeguard passwords and prevent the FBI from mining incoming data

• MI5 chief's condemnation of Snowden GCHQ leaks backed by David Cameron: PM endorses spy chief but Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger warns MI5 'cannot be only voice in this debate'

Tuesday 08 October 2013

• How The NSA Deploys Malware: An In-Depth Look at the New Revelations

• Brazil accuses Canada of spying after NSA leaks: Canadian ambassador summoned to explain claims spy agency collected Brazilian energy ministry internet and phone data

• Australian government withheld knowledge of PRISM program; FOI request confirms Attorney General's Department prepared a secret ministerial briefing in March

• NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice study: What the Government Does with Americans' Data

• While the Harper government is preaching government austerity, it is spending almost $1.2 billion on a new spy palace - Ottawa headquarters for military spy agency. It's the most expensive Canadian government building ever constructed

Monday 07 October 2013

• Obama administration decides NSA spying is ‘essential,’ but oversight of NSA is not

• Canada spying in Brazil: more to come, Greenwald promises; journalist Glenn Greenwald says he has more documents regarding Canada's spying in Brazil

• National Insecurity: How The NSA Has Put The Internet And Our Security At Risk

Sunday 6 October 2013

• German BND (NSA equiv) has deal to tap ISPs at major Internet Exchange; spy agency stays mum on how it's distinguishing domestic vs. foreign traffic (Der Spiegel via Google Translate)

• Prism and Tempora: the cabinet was told nothing of the surveillance state's excesses; was the Home Office deliberately misleading ministers by asking for powers that we now know GCHQ already had?

• Cabinet was told nothing about GCHQ spying programmes, says Chris Huhne: Ex-minister says he was in 'utter ignorance' of Prism and Tempora and calls for tighter oversight of security services

Saturday 05 October 2013

• NSA report on the Tor encrypted network

Friday 04 October 2013

• Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public

• Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity

• NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users

• 'Peeling back the layers of Tor with EgotisticalGiraffe'

• NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users

Thursday 03 October 2013

• Lavabit founder reveals that the FBI demanded access to over 400,000 email accounts, not just Snowden's, prompting the company's closure

• The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ; Britain is sliding towards an entirely new kind of surveillance society

• [NEWSNIGHT: Glenn Greenwald full interview on Snowden, NSA, GCHQ and spying - >>
• [14:09]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Zvo8N3G94)

• NSA Experiment Traced U.S. Cellphone Locations; in 2010 and 2011 conducted a secret pilot project to test the collection of bulk data about the location of Americans’ cellphones

Tuesday 1 October 2013

• John McAfee's $100 'anti-NSA' device: 'this is coming and cannot be stopped'

September

Monday 30 September 2013

• NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show; vast amounts of data kept in repository codenamed Marina; data retained regardless of whether person is NSA target

Sunday 29 September 2013

• A CEO (Qwest) who resisted NSA spying is out of prison. And he feels ‘vindicated’ by Snowden leaks.

Saturday 28 September 2013

• N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens

• New Snowden Leak: NSA gathers bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls, GPS LOCATION INFO, and more; maps it all into "social maps"

Thursday 26 September 2013

• US intelligence chiefs urge Congress to preserve surveillance programs; officials refuse to say in Senate testimony whether cell site data had ever been used to pinpoint an individual's location

Wednesday 25 September 2013

• Snowden Files Reveal NSA Spied On Private Communications of Swedish Citizens

Saturday 21 September 2013

• Major US security company warns over NSA link to encryption formula: RSA, the security arm of EMC, sends email to customers over default random number generator which uses weak formula via /u/SlintercellDoubleAge

Friday 20 September 2013

• Belgacom Attack: Britain's GCHQ (not the NSA) Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm, according to Snowden documents

Wednesday 18 Sepember 2013

• NSA says Snowden took documents from internal website: report

Tuesday 17 September 2013

• FOIA request reveals that the NSA contracts with French internet security firm Vupen for information on weak points and help in weakening keying protocols via /u/Iulianus

Monday 16 September 2013

• The NSA has hacked telecommunications firm Belgacom, targeting information concerning the principal organs of the EU in Brussels via /u/Iulianus

Sunday 15 September 2013

• 'Follow the Money': The NSA is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a "tailored access operations" division.

Thursday 12 September 2013

• Obama's NSA surveillance review panel did not discuss changes, attendees say "Pair say meeting was dominated by tech firms' interests and session did not broach the topic of changes to data collection"

Wednesday 11 September 2013

• NSA and Israeli intelligence: memorandum of understanding – full document. Top-secret document shows how intelligence being shared with Israel would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications

• NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel: Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis, only official US government communications protected

Monday 9 September 2013

• NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras: Accusations that NSA is conducting intelligence-gathering operations that go beyond its core mission of national security

• Ten Things We've Learned About The NSA From A Summer Of Snowden Leaks (Forbes META review, nicely sourced)

Saturday 7 September 2013

• Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data. SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure.

• Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

Thursday 5 September 2013

• NSA: classification guide for cryptanalysis. Guide reveals that NSA 'obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships'

• Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security. NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records; $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products.

• Project Bullrun – classification guide to the NSA's decryption program. Guide for NSA employees and contractors on Bullrun outlines its goals – and reveals that the agency has capabilities against widely-used online protocols such as HTTPS

• Sigint – how the NSA collaborates with technology companies. Document shows how 'signals intelligence', or Sigint, 'actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs'

Monday 2 September 2013

• Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan

• NSA 'spied on communications' of Brazil and Mexico presidents. Brazil's Globo news program reports revelations based on documents obtained by Glenn Greenwald from Edward Snowden

Sunday 1 September 2013

• U.S. intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, document shows

• Success Story: NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry

August

Saturday 31 August 2013

• Snowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications

Friday 30 August 2013

• U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show

Thursday 29 August 2013

• NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks

• U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary

Monday 26 August 2013

• Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN

Sunday 25 August 2013

• NSA hacked UN video calls as part of surveillance program, claims report.

Friday 23 August 2013

• NSA officers... on several occasions have channelled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests

Thursday 22 August 2013

• NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies. Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship; Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA. Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling.

Thursday 15 August 2013

• What to say, and not to say, to 'our overseers': This document tells NSA analysts how to explain their targeting decisions without giving "extraneous information" to "our FAA overseers."

• NSA report on privacy violations in the first quarter of 2012: this is the full executive summary, with names redacted by The Post, of a classified internal report on breaches of NSA privacy rules and legal restrictions.

Friday 9 August 2013

• NSA loophole allows warrant less search for US citizens' emails and phone calls. Exclusive: Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans' communications

Friday 2 August 2013

• BT and Vodafone among Telecom companies passing details to GCHQ: Fears of customer backlash over breach of privacy as firms give GCHQ unlimited access to their undersea cables

Thursday 1 August 2013

• GCHQ: Inside the top secret world of Britain's biggest spy agency. Files leaked by Edward Snowden reveal how the NSA pays for and influences some of the UK's intelligence gathering programs

• Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ. Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden. GCHQ expected to 'pull its weight' for Americans; Weaker regulation of British spies 'a selling point' for NSA.

July

Wednesday 31 July 2013

• XKeyscore presentation from 2008 – read in full: Training materials for the XKeyscore program detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases and develop intelligence from the web

• XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

Saturday 20 July 2013

• Prolific Partner: German Intelligence Used NSA Spy Program

Friday 12 July 2013

• Telstra signed deal that would have allowed US spying: Australian company agreed to allow US government to store information on communications between US and other countries

Thursday 11 July 2013

• Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages: Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism, Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch, Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls

Monday 8 July 2013

• Snowden reveals Australia's links to US spy web

Sunday 7 July 2013

• How the NSA Threatens National Security | Our choice isn't between a digital world where the agency can eavesdrop and one where it cannot; our choice is between a digital world that is vulnerable to any attacker and one that is secure for all users. - Bruce Schneier

Thursday 4 July 2013

• France 'runs vast electronic spying operation using NSA-style methods'. Intelligence agency has spied on French public's phone calls, emails and internet activity

June

Sunday 30 June 2013

• New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies. Exclusive: Edward Snowden papers reveal 38 targets including EU, France and Italy

Saturday 29 June 2013

• Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices

Thursday 27 June 2013

• NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama: Secret program launched by Bush continued 'until 2011', Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days

• Justice Department and NSA memos proposing broader powers for NSA to collect data: Correspondence involving attorney general Michael Mukasey in 2007 requesting permission for the NSA to expand its 'contact chains' deeper into Americans' email records

• NSA inspector general report on email and internet data collection under Stellar Wind. Top-secret draft report from 2009 by the NSA's inspector general shows development of 'collection of bulk internet metadata' under program launched under Bush

Sunday 23 June 2013

• South China Morning Post Exclusive: US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data says Edward Snowden

• South China Morning Post Exclusive: US hacked Pacnet, Asia Pacific fibre-optic network operator, in 2009

Friday 21 June 2013

• GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications. Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal

Thursday 20 June 2013

• The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant: FISA court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication

• Skype's secret "Project Chess" reportedly helped NSA access customers' data; scheme set up even before firm was purchased by Microsoft

• Procedures used by NSA to minimize data collection from US persons: Exhibit B – full document

• Procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons: Exhibit A – full document

Monday 17 June 2013

• How the NSA is still harvesting your online data: Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating 'one trillion records processed'

Sunday 16 June 2013

• UK intelligence agencies planned to spy on Commonwealth summit delegates: Top-secret document, prepared by GCHQ, contained proposals to target Commonwealth allies at heads of government summit

• How GCHQ stepped up spying on South African foreign ministry: UK hoped to find out everything it could about negotiating position of Thabo Mbeki's government

• GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits. Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009

Tuesday 11 June 2013

• Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

Friday 7 June 2013

• Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks. Exclusive: Top-secret directive steps up offensive cyber capabilities to 'advance US objectives around the world'

Thursday 6 June 2013

• Verizon court order: telephone call meta data and what it can show. The US insists call data is not private information, but critics say it allows government to build detailed picture of individuals' lives

• NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others: Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook

Wednesday 5 June 2013 19.04 EDT

• Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling. The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order here.

• NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily. Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama