Last month, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and other privacy activists launched a new campaign to establish global privacy standards. The … Everybody is a SuspectRead more
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Google’s secret NSA alliance
In mid-December 2009, engineers at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, began to suspect that hackers in China had obtained access to private Gmail accounts, … Google’s secret NSA allianceRead more
Obama Administration Blocks Oil Drilling in Arctic
the Obama administration has ended the possibility of oil drilling in the Arctic for the rest of President Obama’s tenure. The administration canceled plans to … Obama Administration Blocks Oil Drilling in ArcticRead more
How the CIA made Google
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as … How the CIA made GoogleRead more
Why Google made the NSA
Mass surveillance is about control. It’s promulgators may well claim, and even believe, that it is about control for the greater good, a control that … Why Google made the NSARead more
U.S. Kill Program’s Secrets Exposed Officially
WHERE IS US CONGRESS? WHAT YOU ARE DOING? One of the most secretive military campaigns in U.S. history is under the microscope like never before. … U.S. Kill Program’s Secrets Exposed OfficiallyRead more
The Rise of America’s Secret Government
It’s been over half a century since Allen Dulles resigned as director of the CIA, but his legacy lives on. Between 1953 and ’61, under … The Rise of America’s Secret GovernmentRead more
U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct
Technology industry lobbyists have so thoroughly hijacked the Commerce Department process for developing a voluntary code of conduct for the use of facial recognition technology … U.S. Facial Recognition Code of ConductRead more