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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 administration
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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
• Security experts say programs 'undermine the fabric of the internet'
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UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operationExclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world's biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme
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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
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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
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Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
Exclusive: Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal weaker regulation of British spies 'a selling point' for US
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State surveillance of personal data: what is the society we wish to protect?
Tom Stoppard, one of 500 leading writers to sign a letter demanding an international bill of digital rights, says 'our masters are in the grip of a delusionary nightmare'
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The primary NSA issue isn't privacy, it's authority
Jeff Jarvis: At heart, the NSA debate is about what the government is allowed to do with what it knows and who is overseeing it
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Trevor Timm: The justice system would never allow Snowden to present a real defense at trial. That's just one reason to give him amnestyMore people than ever oppose the NSA practices Edward Snowden revealed. Why should he spend his life in prison?
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The Guardian view on Edward Snowden's challenges for society
Editorial: Britain needs much more than 'puncture repair kit' legislation if we are to tackle the growing imbalance between the security state and the state
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Trevor Timm: A House vote to stop back doors into your private life sets up a summer surveillance fight: will the Senate stand up before the White House shuts it down?Congress wants NSA reform after all. Obama and the Senate need to pass it
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Snowden showed us just how big the panopticon really was. Now it's up to usJulian Sanchez: One year later, we can finally examine not just the code-named programs but the future of information itself
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Trevor Timm: Encrypted Gmail. Transparency from mobile providers. Maybe even a legal 'revolt' against 'Orwellian' surveillance. But until we get real reform, NSA and Co may survive in the shadowsFour ways Edward Snowden changed the world – and why the fight's not over
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How free is Poland?Katarzyna Szymielewicz: The 25th anniversary of Polish democracy is bittersweet.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden would not get a fair trial – and Kerry is wrong
Daniel Ellsberg: Until the Espionage Act gets reformed, the greatest patriot whistleblower of our time can never come home safe and receive justice
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Edward Snowden: Pentagon report on 'grave' threat is gravely overblownJulian Sanchez: A newly revealed damage assessment offers a window into government damage control – not any actual damage done by Snowden
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The NSA reform bill now shuts down a secret database. Will that fix anything?Marcy Wheeler: A detailed look into the future of America's phone dragnet reveals a world without the nuclear bomb of the Snowden revelations. Unless, of course, the telecoms set it off
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Trevor Timm: A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why?Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA
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The official US position on the NSA is still unlimited eavesdropping powerJameel Jaffer: One year after Snowden, the government is still defending the 'paramount' power to spy on every call and email between you and your friends abroad
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Trevor Timm: A close look at the new NSA reform bill – and court cases that may be just as important – reveals that, one year after Snowden's breakthrough, we're finally getting somewhereThe battle to retake our privacy can be won – really!
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Trevor Timm: The US supreme court doesn't understand the internet. When NSA, Pandora and privacy cases hit the docket, that lack of tech savvy gets scaryTechnology law will soon be reshaped by people who don't use email
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Why can't nerds break news instead of just explaining it?James Ball: There is 'breaking' news that masquerades as 'exclusive', and then there's a true scoop. Here's hoping the new wave of explainer sites won't forget
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The US supreme court needs to keep up with our cellphones – and the NSAYochai Benkler: Tuesday's oral arguments on search and seizure make it clear – the era of incremental justice must end before metadata gets out of hand
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Roy Greenslade notes the newspapers that reported The Guardian's success and those that did not
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The NSA's Heartbleed problem is the problem with the NSAJulian Sanchez: What the agency's denial isn't telling you: it didn't even need know about the bug to vacuum your privacy and store it indefinitely
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Trevor Timm: Tech CEOs are complaining, but bills are languishing. Time for internet companies to pull an OKCupid and call out the NSA, on every homepageSilicon Valley could force NSA reform, tomorrow. What's taking so long?
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Trevor Timm: Here's what the privacy geeks are still worried about – that the spies might get more out of new bills than SnowdenBeware the surveillance reform Trojan horse: what's not in the new NSA laws?
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Obama is cancelling the NSA dragnet. So why did all three branches sign off?Jameel Jaffer: Well, at least the phone part of the dragnet. Here's hoping it's the end of laws of the spies, by the spies and for the spies
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Actors, musicians and journalists sign statement supporting Edward Snowden
More than 50 offer support to whistleblowers
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Philip Hammond questioned by intelligence and security committee: Politics Live blogAndrew Sparrow’s rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Nick Clegg hosting his LBC phone-in and Sir David Omand and Philip Hammond giving evidence to the intelligence and security committee
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Citizenfour review – Edward Snowden documentary is utterly engrossingLaura Poitras’s brave documentary follows Edward Snowden as his leaks about the activities of the NSA shock the world, writes Mark Kermode
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Cameron says he will have 'one last go' at negotiating better deal for UK in EU – as it happenedAndrew Sparrow’s rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May giving evidence to the intelligence and security committee and Nick Clegg hosting his Call Clegg phone-in
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Citizenfour review – gripping Snowden documentary offers portrait of power, paranoia and one remarkable man
Review Citizenfour review – gripping Snowden documentary offers portrait of power, paranoia and one remarkable man
5 / 5 starsLaura Poitras’s film shows the first extensive interviews with Edward Snowden after he blew the whistle on NSA and government intrusion, writes Peter Bradshaw -
Australia’s defence intelligence agency conducted secret programs to help NSAIt is unclear, from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, whether programs to hack computer networks continue at ASD
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Citizenfour review – Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicatedLaura Poitras’ documentary disentangles NSA surveillance and plots the story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow
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Second leaker in US intelligence, says Glenn GreenwaldCitizenfour, new film on spying whistleblower Edward Snowden, shows journalist Greenwald discussing other source
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Conference to discuss mass surveillance and threats to press freedom
It will discuss ways to safeguard journalists and their sources
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Tim Berners-Lee calls for internet bill of rights to ensure greater privacyWeb inventor says world needs an online ‘Magna Carta’ to combat growing government and corporate control
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone's NSA whistleblower movieDark Knight Rises star to take central role in one of two duelling versions of account of National Security Agency files leak, adapted from Guardian journalist’s book
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CIA has stopped spying on western European governments, sources sayAgency declines to comment but US official says pause in decades of espionage was designed to give CIA time to re-evaulate strategy
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Petition calls on Obama to respect rights of journalists to do their job
Press freedom group urges people to sign
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Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to talk on freedom of the press
He is expected to draw on Wikileaks and Snowden battles
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Edward Snowden story to be told at Museum of SydneyGuardian Australia and Brisbane Writers Festival invite you to hear journalist Luke Harding in conversation with David Marr about The Snowden Files on 3 September 2014
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Snowden: NSA accidentally caused Syria's internet blackout in 2012NSA whistleblower tells Wired infiltration attempt went wrong, causing a mass outage for which the Syrian government and rebels blamed each other
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Edward Snowden given permission to stay in Russia - video
Edward Snowden has been granted permission to remain in Russia for the next three years, his lawyer says on Thursday
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Privacy fears as Australian surveillance laws are dragged into the digital eraSpecial report: How will police and security services monitor our communications? Will they be allowed to mine metadata? Will it be regulated? Key questions as parliament reshapes outdated acts
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Nicky Morgan's statement on Birmingham 'Trojan horse' inquiry: Politics live blogAndrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including a Commons statement from Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, on the Birmingham "Trojan horse" affair
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Researchers: Lawyers blocked our Black hat demo on de-anonymising TorShelved Black Hat presentation would have explained why you don't have to be the NSA to break Tor. By Tom Brewster
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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
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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'
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NSA: classification guide for cryptanalysis
Guide reveals that NSA 'obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships'
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Procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons: Exhibit A – full document
Top-secret documents show Fisa judges have signed off on broad orders allowing the NSA to make use of information 'inadvertently' collected from domestic US communications without a warrant
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NSA Prism program slides
Prism, according to the Snowden documents, is the biggest single contributor to the NSA's intelligence reports. As a 'downstream' program, it collects data from Google, Facebook, Apple and others
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NSA: SSO intelligence reports by company
This graphic produced by the SSO shows that between June and July 2010, data from Yahoo generated by far the most NSA intelligence reports, followed by Microsoft, and then Google
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Obama's NSA review gives the lie to Britain's timid platitudes: a debate is possible