USA 29/07/2015 Edward Snowden will not be pardoned, White House insists Edward Snowden will not get a presidential pardon. The White House has responded to a petition set up in June 2013 using the 'We the people' site
France 24/06/2015 Read Wikileaks' top French NSA Intercepts The following extracts of NSA intercepts of French leadership and presidents have been leaked by whistleblowing organisation Wikileaks
USA 02/06/2015 USA Freedom Act passed by Senate and signed by President Obama, limiting NSA surveillance The US Senate has passed the USA Freedom Act putting an end to the mass collection of Americans' telephone records by the National Security Agency.
USA 01/06/2015 US spying powers suspended after Senate setback The US National Security Agency (NSA) has temporary lost its authority to collect bulk phone records. The surveillance programme made public by
USA 01/06/2015 US Senate fails to act over controversial surveillance laws The US Senate has failed to reach a deal over extending anti-terrorist laws that let its security services collect phone data. It means the law known
Germany 01/05/2015 Snowden, Assange and Manning statues unveiled in Berlin Taking a stand in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz are whistleblowers Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. The life-size bronze statues were
USA 07/04/2015 Anonymous artists secretly erect Snowden statue in New York park A controversial bronze statute of intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was secretly erected over night in a New York city park. Artists put a statue of
USA 06/03/2015 Edward Snowden makes Switzerland asylum appeal Edward Snowden has made a public appeal for Switzerland to grant him asylum. The fugitive former US spy agency contractor told an audience in Geneva
world news 27/02/2015 A quite unique Festival The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) is one of the most important events dedicated to cinema and human rights worldwide
New Zealand 15/09/2014 Snowden, Assange, Dotcom rally against surveillance in New Zealand A few days before New Zealand’s general elections, Kim Dotcom has turned a rally of the Internet Party into a star-studded panel against Internet
Russia 31/07/2014 Edward Snowden: after one year in Russia, what now for the NSA whistleblower? July 31, 2014 marks one year since NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was granted political asylum in Russia. The former National Security Agency
world news 08/04/2014 Watch: Edward Snowden claims intelligence agencies screen trillions of private data Intelligence agencies have screened trillions of citizens’ private communications over the vaguest of threats, Edward Snowden has claimed. The
insiders 19/03/2014 Obama in Europe in testing times for EU/US relations Duane Jackson is a street vendor in New York City’s Times Square. He is also an American hero. Four years ago, this Vietnam war veteran, along with
USA 11/02/2014 Worldwide day of activism to "fight back" against mass surveillance In the wake of the Snowden revelations, digital rights organisations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, individuals and companies such as
USA 28/01/2014 Spy agencies look at apps like Angry Birds for user data US and UK spy agencies have been developing methods of scooping up user data from smartphone apps such as Angry Birds, it has emerged. The Guardian
Germany 27/01/2014 Snowden says 'significant threats' to his life Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told German TV on Sunday about reports that U.S. government officials want to
Russia 24/01/2014 Edward Snowden defends revelations in online Q&A, calls to end “unconstitutional policies” In an online question-and-answer session on Thursday evening, NSA contractor turned whistle-blower in exile Edward Snowden answered 13 questions from
USA 15/01/2014 US using radio waves to take cyber spying to a new level The US National Security Agency has embedded spying software in 100,000 computers around the world to carry out surveillance on friend and foe alike
world news 09/01/2014 Snowden to testify to European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee A European Parliament committee has voted in favour of allowing whistlebower Edward Snowden to testify to the chamber in a special hearing. The
USA 02/01/2014 'Justified' Snowden deserves leniency, argues NY Times The New York Times has urged the American government to grant former NSA contractor Edward Snowden clemency or a reduced punishment owing to the
