Documents provided by Edward Snowden mention a special relationship between the National Security Agency and an unnamed telecommunications company. Here’s how we figured out that’s AT&T.
NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
Snowden documents show agency is collecting billions of records on whereabouts of mobile devices
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (Published 2013)
The scale and longevity of a data storage program run by the government in partnership with AT&T was unmatched by other government programs, including the National Security Agency’s gathering of phone call logs.
Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy
The NSA whistleblower sat down with The Intercept’s Micah Lee in Moscow.
Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist
Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it says would compromise its end-to-end encryption and create new cybersecurity risks. Signal vice-president Udbhav Tiwari told the Globe and Mail that the company “would rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users.” The comments are part of a steady stream of similar warnings from Apple, Meta, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Cybersecurity Advisors Network, and the chairs of the U.S. House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees. Despite growing concern, the government’s response has been to launch a misleading social media campaign and repeatedly insist that the experts and companies are mistaken.
The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World's Spy Agencies
Morgan Marquis-Boire is the director of security for First Look Media, the most prolific publisher of Edward Snowden's remaining secrets. His daunting task is to safeguard those documents, as well as the communications of reporters with perhaps the press's most adversarial relationships with Western intelligence agencies.
Exploring Al Qaeda’s Murky Connection To Russian Intelligence
There is possible evidence of a linkage between the leader of al Qaeda and the Russian intelligence service.
CSE: What do we know about Canada's eavesdropping agency? | CBC News
CBC News takes a closer look at the activities of one of Canada's most secretive agencies, the Communications Security Establishment.
Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy
We now know the apparatus of repression has been attached to the democratic state, but our struggle for privacy is far from hopeless. By Eben Moglen
Spying on Congress and Israel: NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated
This pattern has been seen many times as part of the Snowden revelations, but also well before that.
The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
In our two-part series, Ars looks at what Snowden's disclosures have wrought politically and institutionally.
OpenAI’s ‘Red Lines’ Are Written In The NSA’s Dictionary—Where Words Mean What The NSA Wants Them To Mean
Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance and autonomous weapons, then turned around and praised a competitor for s…
Let’s talk about iMessage (again)
Yesterday’s New York Times carried a story entitled “Apple and other tech companies tangle with U.S. over data access”. It’s a vague headline that manages to obscure the rea…
Why We Should Be Concerned About AT&T's Massive Merger and Privacy Accusations
16K votes, 508 comments. 21M subscribers in the technology community. Subreddit dedicated to the news and discussions about the creation and use of…
Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause problems for the NSA.
