Garrett M. Graff
Five years after the Snowden leaks, the NSA was compelled to delete millions of records in 2018 after it was revealed that some of the data had been collected from phone service providers without legal authority or authorization. In 2020, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act — a surveillance ...
If Snowden’s next leaks swerve in that direction, he’ll be like a CISO confessing that the security program has received too much money and power and has locked things down too tightly. He’ll have to beef up his case in any event if he ever wants to see Hawaii and his girlfriend...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whistleblower or traitor, leaker or public hero? National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the lid off U.S. government surveillance methods five years ago, but intelligence chiefs complain that revelations from the trove
earlier, the NSA cited similar cost-benefit calculations when it stopped another secret program under which it was collecting Americans' email metadata - information showing who was communicating with whom, but not the content of the messages. That decision was made public via the Snowden leaks. ...
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In June 2013, Edward Snowden was sitting in his room at the Mira hotel in Hong Kong, watching the world react to the first of his explosive leaks about the NSA’s out-of-control surveillance, when he was tipped off that the NSA might be closing in on him
In the case of Microsoft, however, it appears as if the Bill Gates-founded tech company went out of its way to assist federal investigators. Among the discoveries made by the latest Snowden leaks, Guardian journalists say that Microsoft specifically aided the NSA in circumventing encrypted chat ...
Snowden to Testify in Defence of Creator of Football Leaks More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Edward Snowden speaks via video link as he takes part in a round table on the protection of whistleblowers at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler By Cat...
Morale at the US National Security Agency has plummeted since the Edward Snowden leak made international headlines and inspired an ongoing wave of criticism against the intelligence agency – news that coincides with the publication of more NSA documents