Archives for May 2023

By Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn, and Andrew Crocker: Electronic Frontier Foundation

On May 20, 2013, a young government contractor with an EFF sticker on his laptop disembarked a plane in Hong Kong carrying with him evidence confirming, among other things, that the United States government had been conducting mass surveillance on a global scale. What came next were weeks of disclosures—and official declassifications—as Edward Snowden worked with some of the world’s top news organizations to reveal critical facts about the National Security Agency vacuuming up people’s online communications, internet activity, and phone records, both inside and outside the U.S..

By Chip Gibbons: Defending Rights & Dissent
So long as protests are treated as national security and intelligence matters, national security and intelligence tools will be used to endanger political expression.

By Lisa Ling, Sarah Cords: The Progressive

Whistleblowers like Reality Winner and Daniel Hale acted on principle; the same can’t be said for alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira.