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The Latest Breaking News from Edward Snowden

Why Trump's prosecution for keeping secret documents is lawful, constitutional, precedented, nonpartisan and merited

Donald Trump and his allies have responded with a variety of objections to his federal indictment, brought in June 2023 by special counsel Jack Smith. The federal charges – the first against a former president – listed 37 counts of obstruction of justice and wrongful retention of classified documents after…

The Conversation

We Still Don't Know the Full Extent of the Government's Warrantless Electronic Spying Program

The reauthorization of Section 702 is one of the most important issues facing Congress in the second half of this year.

Reason

Elite Journalists Love Big Brother

Prominent reporters and powerful officials know each other, share attitudes, and trust each other.

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Time is running out for Julian Assange. If MPs do not act, how can they say they value free speech?

The WikiLeaks founder faces extradition and an uncertain fate in the US. Our judges and politicians must intervene, says writer Duncan Campbell

The Guardian - UK

Lifesize sculpture of Julian Assange appears outside UK parliament

Bronze of jailed Wikileaks founder fighting extradition to the US flanked by figures of whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning

The Guardian - UK

Ellsberg and Trump both took classified documents. Their reasons couldn’t be more different

A great truth teller has left us. A liar whose mendacity has no equal remains for us to deal with

The Guardian - US

Daniel Ellsberg was one of history’s most consequential figures

May we all one day have as much courage – in life and in death – as Daniel Ellsberg

The Guardian - US

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RIP Daniel Ellsberg, Who Told the World the Truth About the Vietnam War

The Pentagon Papers leaker risked prison to reveal that American military officials were lying to Congress and the public about Vietnam. He died today at age 92.

Reason

Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, dies aged 92

Analyst who leaked studies showing US government knew the Vietnam war was un-winnable became activist and writer

The Guardian - US

U.S. intelligence can spy on Americans too easily, advisors warn

The surveillance economy has strengthened since Edward Snowden’s revelations.

Fortune

Eavesdroppers, code-breakers and digital snoops: a deep dive into one of the most secret branches of Australian intelligence

The intelligence industry is habitually accused of being too embedded in its own protective culture, trade-craft and jargon.

The Conversation

Threatened Saudi dissident told to live like Edward Snowden by Met police

Col Rabih Alenezi received advice after reporting death threats, of which he says he receives 50 a week

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Millions under air quality alerts in US as Canada fire smoke drifts south

Eastern states including New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut issue alerts as hundreds of wildfires burn in Canada. Plus, will Trump’s once loyal deputy become his nemesis?

The Guardian - UK

‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile

But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today

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Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published

Ten years on, Nick Hopkins recalls how the Guardian defied the intelligence agencies to publish revelations of mass state surveillance

The Guardian - US

What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations?

The whistleblower forced US intelligence agencies to admit extensive spying on their own citizens. Some reforms were enacted but Snowden still faces potentially 30 years in prison

The Guardian - UK

States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier

The historic leaks prompted legislation: yet governments are finding new ways to monitor citizens. The UK’s online safety bill is one of them, says investigative journalist Heather Brooke

The Guardian - UK

Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future

The abuses the Guardian helped him bring to worldwide attention go on: the authorities have merely made it harder to expose them

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A decade on, Edward Snowden remains in Russia, though U.S. laws have changed

A decade ago, we were still exploring the technological wonders of cellphones and other electronic devices. Few were thinking about how they could be used to monitor us. Then came Edward Snowden.

Reason

European Union Fines Meta $1.3 Billion Because of NSA Spying Programs

The record penalty seems to be based less on the Facebook parent company's lax data practices than the U.S. intelligence community's data-collection programs.

The Guardian - AU

The top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott

Lenore Taylor looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions

Reason

Spying Abuses Are Still a Concern, 10 Years After Edward Snowden

Despite some headway in protecting privacy, the surveillance state hasn’t gone away.

The Conversation

Meta just copped a A$1.9bn fine for keeping EU data in the US. But why should users care where data are stored?

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has just been hit with an eye-watering €1.2 billion fine (about A$1.9 billion) for breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Warnings of a ‘splinternet’ were greatly exaggerated – until now

In this week’s newsletter: Facebook has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by EU regulators, and the cracks in the fault lines of data regulations are showing. Could that be a good thing?

Wales Online

Facebook owner Meta fined £1billion for breach in user data rules

The record fine was levied after a three-year probe

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