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Your phone records, your credit-card bills, your internet trail – the government has the power to summon it all on-demand, without telling you. Until now

Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden would not get a fair trial – and Kerry is wrong Edward Snowden is the greatest patriot whistleblower of our time, and he knows what I learned more than four decades ago: until the Espionage Act gets reformed, he can never come home safe and receive justice

NSA, Government Surveillance, Snowden, Social Control, Social Problems

Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know the apparatus of repression has been covertly attached to the democratic state. However, our struggle to retain privacy is far from hopeless

NSA, Government Surveillance, Snowden, Social Control, Social Problems

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald – review Greenwald’s often gripping account of his central involvement in the Snowden revelations also raises big political questions

NSA, Government Surveillance, Snowden, Social Control, Social Problems

Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA 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?

NSA, Government Surveillance, Snowden, Social Control, Social Problems

Munk Debate on State Surveillance: Greenwald/Ohanian vs Hayden/Dershowitz

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The mentality of J Edgar Hoover’s FBI undergirds today’s surveillance state People forget that the FBI is the NSA’s primary partner in domestic spying, which allows them to work in secret

NSA, FBI, Government Surveillance, Social Control, Social Problems

NSA robots are ‘collecting’ your data, too, and they’re getting away with it Eavesdropping by algorithm is still eavesdropping, whether a human looks at your data or not. Real reform can’t abide by the spy dictionary anymore

NSA, Government Surveillance, Social Control, Social Problems

NSA: six out of 10 Americans want reform of data collection, says poll Fears grow President Obama will allow NSA to keep bulk databases as survey finds majority in favour of change

NSA, Government Surveillance, Social Control, Social Problems

EDITORIAL Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower

NSA, Government Surveillance, Social Control, Social Problems