With a “Can you hear me now”, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has joined Twitter. “I used to work for the government, Now I work for the public,” reads his bio. Can you hear me now? — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September…
The White House Just Responded to the Pardon Edward Snowden Petition – Two Years Later
It only took two years, but the White House has finally gotten around to providing a response to a petition asking for the pardon of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Official answer: nope. “As the President said in announcing recent intelligence…
Yes, Your Google Hangouts Can Be Wiretapped
Google encrypts your Hangouts conversations, but it doesn’t use end-to-end encryption. This means that Google can wiretap your Hangouts at the government’s request. That’s one big revelation from a recent reddit AMA with Richard Salgado, Google’s director for law enforcement…
John Oliver, Edward Snowden Talk Surveillance, Hot Pockets, Dick Pics
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, HBO’s John Oliver took a long, hilarious, but ultimately frightening look into the Patriot Act, government surveillance, and the man who revealed it all a couple summers ago – Edward Snowden. But the show wasn’t…
Tech Companies Call for End to Mass Surveillance in Letter to Obama, Congress
The group Reform Government Surveillance, which includes Apple, AOL, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, and more, has joined dozens of other organizations in calling on the US government to reform mass surveillance and end the bulk data collection programs revealed…
‘Enemies of the Internet’ List Now Features US Agency for the First Time
Operating behind its “wall of secrecy,” the National Security Agency has been put on one watchdog’s list of ‘Enemies of the Internet.’ “Identifying government units or agencies rather than entire governments as Enemies of the Internet allows us to draw…