- How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets NYT
- Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass NYT
- Flipside: What did Edward Snowden get wrong? Everything—"Let me break this to you gently. The government is not interested in your conversations with your aunt, unless, of course, she is a key terrorist leader." But they aren't supposed to be trawling through all these conversations in the first place.
- White House insists James Clapper will not lead NSA surveillance review—"Officials stress director of national intelligence will have limited role after Obama seemed to imply Clapper would head panel."
- Video: Senator Obama Slams National Security Letters in 2005
- NSA leaks make plan for cyberdefense unlikely—"Whatever trust was there is now gone...I mean, who would believe the N.S.A. when it insists it is blocking Chinese attacks but not using the same technology to read your e-mail?" NYT
- Anti-NSA Surveillance Voters Fighting Uphill Battle
- EFF: Multiple New Polls Show Americans Reject Wholesale NSA Domestic Spying
- Irony Alert: Pentagon Now Sees Big Data as 'National Security Threat'—And now the DOD's looking into deanonymization.
- After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky—"For years, the Central Intelligence Agency denied it had a secret file on MIT professor and famed dissident Noam Chomsky. But a new government disclosure obtained by The Cable reveals for the first time that the agency did in fact gather records on the anti-war iconoclast during his heyday in the 1970s."
- NZ PM Key: NZers care more about snapper than GCSB—Do Kiwis know they're being spied on?
- Lavabit founder, under gag order, speaks out about shut-down decision—"Levison built e-mail 'by geeks, for geeks'—and then turned off 410,000 accounts." He says, "There's information that I can't even share with my lawyer, let alone with the American public."
- Google: Gmail Users Can't Legitimately Expect Privacy—They already scan emails for ad purposes.
- Larry Ellison: Google is ABSOLUTELY EVIL, but NSA is ESSENTIAL
- Microsoft Bing-bang-bungles local search—"Windows 8.1 is still in preview, but when you do a local search in it, your results will include both local and Bing-provided hits. Microsoft will then use your search terms for targeted ads."
- No, your data isn't secure in the cloud—"In 2012, Google alone received 21,389 government requests for information affecting 33,634 user accounts."
- The democratic people's monarchy of North Korea—"North Korea changes ruling principles to legitimise succession of power."
- Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi jail term confirmed
- Bahrain braces for anti-government protests
- Egypt troops clear Morsi protests—"Egyptian security forces move in to clear two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo, leaving several dead."
- Bangladesh: The Battling Begums—"The pendulum swings away from Sheikh Hasina and her government."
- Israel Faces Deepening Isolation, Kerry Warns
- Palestinians celebrate prisoner release—"Jubilant reception in West Bank and Gaza for 26 men set free by Israel hours before beginning of peace talks."
- Israel approves another 900 settler homes
- Israel risks loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in EU research grants over settlement row
- 'The Onion' Encourages Israel And Palestine Not To Give A Single, Goddamn Inch
- The Price of 'Made in China' NYT
- Chinese tourists appall North Koreans by throwing candy at their kids
- China to ditch its one-child policy as ageing crisis looms
- Meet the Montreal protester with $6,500 in fines after she outed cops for misconduct—"During Quebec student protests, Katie Nelson was hit with tickets for jaywalking, spitting and numerous other charges."
- Woman fined $219 for not paying bus fare with exact change—"Montreal mother and child returning from hospital kicked off bus, fined."
- Police fine man $147 for sitting under tree
- Racist, or good marketing? DVD cover for Australian film 'The Sapphires' causes controversy
- Oprah Winfrey 'victim of racism' in Switzerland: Billionaire told she can't afford expensive handbag at exclusive Zurich store—She has apologized for the media storm that ensued.
- Zimbabwe to get 'black' stock exchange
