The NSA Files

Most recent stories in The NSA Files

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  The Guardian

  

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

  The Guardian - Lisa O'Carroll

  Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider. It doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative …

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  The Guardian

  

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

  The Guardian - James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald

  • 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' US and British intelligence agencies have …

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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 • A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast …

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  The Guardian

  

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

  The Guardian - James Meikle

  The father of the whistleblower Edward Snowden has said the FBI tried to persuade him to fly to Moscow so that he could encourage his son to return to the United States. "I said: 'I want to be able to speak with my son … Can you set up communications?' and it was 'Well, we are not sure,'" Lon …

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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 …