Edward Snowden

Latest on the computer analyst whistleblower who provided the Guardian with top-secret NSA documents leading to revelations about US surveillance on phone and internet communications

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• Outgoing GCHQ boss defends agency activities after Snowden revelations

  21 Oct 2014: Sir Iain Lobban uses valedictory address to praise ‘extraordinary’ job of staff with ‘mission of liberty, not erosion of it’
  

• Citizenfour review – Edward Snowden documentary is utterly engrossing

  

  19 Oct 2014: Laura Poitras’s brave documentary follows Edward Snowden as his leaks about the activities of the NSA shock the world, writes Mark Kermode

• The state wants to spy on us – but is it up to the job?

  19 Oct 2014: Finding a balance between national security and the right to privacy raises questions of competence as much as trust, writes John Naughton

• Edward Snowden on GCHQ, Facebook and his new life in Moscow – video

  Video (19min 05sec), 17 Oct 2014:

  The NSA whistleblower makes his first UK appearance via Skype at the Observer Ideas festival 2014 at the Barbican in central London

• The Guardian view on MPs and the Edward Snowden agenda

  16 Oct 2014: Editorial: This parliament has serious unfinished business to carry out over the lack of control of GCHQ’s surveillance powers

• Citizenfour review – gripping Snowden documentary offers portrait of power, paranoia and one remarkable man

  

  16 Oct 2014: Laura Poitras’s film shows the first extensive interviews with Edward Snowden after he blew the whistle on NSA and government intrusion, writes Peter Bradshaw

• New privacy and civil liberties board to look at security policy, says Nick Clegg

  15 Oct 2014: Lib Dem leader tells parliament’s intelligence and security committee new body would be up and running before election

• James Risen is not going to let the US fear-mongering machine win in secret

  15 Oct 2014: Trevor Timm: The reporter who exposed the NSA before Snowden will go behind bars to protect his source. But he will not let Obama’s Bushian addiction to power take us back to endless war without a fight

• UK intelligence agencies need stronger oversight, says David Blunkett

  14 Oct 2014: Former home secretary tells Commons committee continued secrecy is undermining public confidence in wake of Snowden revelations

• Man Booker prize: Peter Carey criticises decision to include US writers

  13 Oct 2014: Australian novelist, who has won prestigious prize twice, says award’s ‘particular cultural flavour’ will be lost
  

• Australia’s defence intelligence agency conducted secret programs to help NSA

  13 Oct 2014: It is unclear, from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, whether programs to hack computer networks continue at ASD

• Edward Snowden: state surveillance in Britain has no limits

  12 Oct 2014: Whistleblower and former NSA analyst says UK regulation allows GCHQ snooping to go beyond anything seen in US

• The Snowden documentary shows that only government transparency can stop leaks

  11 Oct 2014: Trevor Timm: Snowden’s leaks are not isolated incidents – or, at least they won’t be when we look back on this era 10 years from now

• Citizenfour review – Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicated

  

  11 Oct 2014: Laura Poitras’ documentary disentangles NSA surveillance and plots the story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow

• Observer Ideas festival featuring Edward Snowden – watch it live

  11 Oct 2014: Watch speakers including Edward Snowden, David Simon, Tinie Tempah, Conchita Wurst and Jack Monroe speaking live at this year’s Observer Ideas festival

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