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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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• 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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Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world's biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme
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Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009
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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: Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal weaker regulation of British spies 'a selling point' for US
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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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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 amnesty
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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?
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Julian 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 shadows
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Katarzyna Szymielewicz: The 25th anniversary of Polish democracy is bittersweet.
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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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Julian Sanchez: A newly revealed damage assessment offers a window into government damage control – not any actual damage done by Snowden
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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?
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Jameel 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 somewhere
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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 scary
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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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Yochai 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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Julian 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 homepage
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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 Snowden
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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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More than 50 offer support to whistleblowers
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Andrew 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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Laura 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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Andrew 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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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 -
It is unclear, from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, whether programs to hack computer networks continue at ASD
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Laura Poitras’ documentary disentangles NSA surveillance and plots the story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow
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Citizenfour, new film on spying whistleblower Edward Snowden, shows journalist Greenwald discussing other source
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It will discuss ways to safeguard journalists and their sources
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Web inventor says world needs an online ‘Magna Carta’ to combat growing government and corporate control
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Dark 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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Agency 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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Press freedom group urges people to sign
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He is expected to draw on Wikileaks and Snowden battles
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Guardian 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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NSA 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 has been granted permission to remain in Russia for the next three years, his lawyer says on Thursday
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Special 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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Andrew 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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Shelved 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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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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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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Guide reveals that NSA 'obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships'
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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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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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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