The NSA Files

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  The Guardian

  

  Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media

  The Guardian - Lisa O'Carroll

  Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control'. By Lisa O'Carroll

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  The Guardian

  

  Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security

  The Guardian - Julian Borger

  • NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records• $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products• Security experts say programs ‘undermine the fabric of the internet’

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  The Guardian

  

  XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

  The Guardian - Glenn Greenwald

  • XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history

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  The Guardian

  

  Edward Snowden's father says FBI asked him to fly to Moscow

  The Guardian - James Meikle

  Lon Snowden says his son will be 'treated horribly' if he returns to US and in his place he would stay in Russia

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  The Guardian

  

  NSA surveillance: narrow defeat for amendment to restrict data collection

  guardian.co.uk - Spencer Ackerman

  The first major legislative challenge to the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records from millions of Americans was defeated by …

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  The Guardian

  

  Tech firms should be allowed to publish more data on US surveillance | Ryan Budish

  guardian.co.uk - Ryan Budish

  Following the leaks about NSA surveillance, people demanded information about the scope and scale of the US government's data collection. In …