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- The large companies that were charging large fees—for hardware, for software, for the long-distance phone calls that you needed back then to get online, and for knowledge itself, which was humanity's common inheritance and so, by all rights, should have been available for free—were irresistible contemporary avatars of the British, whose harsh taxation ignited the fervor for independence.
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Jun 6, 2018 · Where lawmakers failed to reform, the tech industry stepped up. Five years ago this week, Edward Snowden handed over a vast cache of close to ten thousand highly classified documents to...
- Began Encrypting Their Cables
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- Direct Threat
The former NSA official turned whistleblower said, among...
- Us Violated Spy Laws 'Hundreds' of Times in The Past Decade
According to the data, the majority of violations occurred...
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Under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, first brought out in...
- Surprise! Tech Transparency Reports Aren't All That Transparent
In the several years since a handful of companies began...
- Congress Demanded NSA Spying Reform. Instead, They Let You Down
The Senate passed the "ugly" FISA Amendments Reauthorization...
- Began Encrypting Their Cables
Sep 16, 2021 · In 2013, reporting by The Washington Post — based on documents from the former U.S. government contractor Edward J. Snowden — revealed that the National Security Agency and its British...
Jun 7, 2023 · Another major change resulted specifically from Snowden’s disclosure of the PRISM program, which revealed the extent to which Big Tech firms—including Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Apple ...
Jan 17, 2014 · Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the CIA, left the US in late May after leaking to the media details of extensive internet and phone surveillance by American intelligence.
Nov 21, 2018 · In the five years since documents provided by Edward Snowden became the basis for a series of revelations that tore away a veil of secrecy around broad surveillance programs run by the National...
Jun 8, 2018 · In 2013, National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked classified NSA data revealing that the agency, along with others including British intelligence and security organisation GCHQ, was conducting numerous global surveillance programmes.
Sep 22, 2019 · Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being...
