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One of the most contentious aspects of the NSA's surveillance is the central belief by General Alexander and presumably many others ...

One of the bitter lessons we learned from Snowden's leaks is that the Internet has been compromised by the NSA (with some help from ...

We noted last week that Japan was bringing in severe new punishments designed to discourage whistleblowing. That might suggest that fol...

Edward Snowden's leaks show that the NSA and GCHQ have been systematically subverting key technologies that underlie the Internet. ...

I've always been a big fan of Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, even when it was unfashionable to admit it. Because, for the ...

(The previous two parts of this essay appeared earlier.) Or maybe not. There is a rough consensus among cryptography experts that the theor...

(The first part of this three-part essay appeared yesterday.) The gradual but relentless shift from piecemeal, small-scale analogue eaves...

Netzpolitik.org is the leading site covering digital rights in German. It played a key role in helping to stop ACTA last year, and recently...

There aren't many upsides to Snowden's revelations that NSA is essentially spying on the entire Internet, all the time, but if on...

One of the most important pieces of legislation wending its way through the European Parliament concerns data protection . Because of its...

It was expected that the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, would raise the issue of NSA spying when she addressed the opening sessio...

A couple of weeks ago, Mike reported on the extraordinary turn of events involving Edward Snowden's email supplier, Lavabit. The com...

One of the key issues in the debate surrounding Snowden's leaks is whether they might be threatening our security by letting the ba...

One of the many benefits of Edward Snowden's leaks about NSA spying is that it is flushing out similar activity around the world. Ti...

It's becoming increasingly clear that one of the reasons Edward Snowden was able to access so much secret information -- and walk ou...

As many have already observed, the detention of David Miranda comes across as an act of blatant intimidation , as does the farcical destr...

Revelations from documents obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden that GCHQ essentially downloads the entire Internet as it enters and...

If you follow me on Twitter or elsewhere, you'll have noticed that I've been tweeting rather extensively about the NSA' s spyi...

Techdirt has noted the increasing demonization of hackers (not to be confused with crackers that break into systems for criminal purposes...

When Edward Snowden first revealed himself as the source of the NSA leaks, the Guardian released a short video interview with him in whic...