- House Democrat Renews Push To End Controversial 9/11 Rules Of War On Terror—"A top Democrat on the House intelligence committee is spearheading a renewed effort to end the administration's controversial, 9/11-era counterterrorism rules of war."
- Obama ordered to divulge legal basis for killing Americans with drones—"Appeals court will have the veil of secrecy lifted in targeted killing program."
- Judge slaps State Department over Blackwater—"A federal judge is calling for an investigation of the State Department over years of delays in prosecuting Blackwater security guards in the shootings of dozens of Iraqi citizens in 2007."
- New York police end Muslim surveillance program—"A special New York Police Department unit that sparked controversy by tracking the daily lives of Muslims in an effort to detect terror threats has been disbanded, police officials said Tuesday."
- US Has A 'Secret Exception' To Reasonable Suspicion For Putting People On The No Fly List
- Was the police response to the Boston bombing really appropriate?—"It's time we had a frank discussion about how the government reacted after the Boston Marathon bombing." WaPo
- Obama signs into law 'terrorist' UN envoy visa ban
- TSA Gives Full-Body Pat-Downs to 2-YO Boy, Older Sister
- On CIA abuses, denial does Americans no favors
- ACLU: Don't Let the Torturer Play Censor
- Spanish judge defies pressure to scrap Guantanamo torture case against Bush
- Guantánamo hearings halted amid accusations of FBI spying on legal team—"Allegations surfaced Monday that the FBI turned a member of a 9/11 defendant's defence team into a secret informant."
- Covert Inquiry by F.B.I. Rattles 9/11 Tribunals—"The F.B.I.'s inquiry became the focus of the pretrial hearings at Guantánamo this week, after the contractor who was visited by the F.B.I. disclosed it to the defense team." NYT
- The FBI Is Trying to Recruit Muslims As Snitches by Putting Them On No-Fly Lists
- Facing gun charges, Ayyub Abdul-Alim accuses Springfield police, FBI of planting weapon
- FBI Abruptly Walks Out On Senate Briefing After Being Asked How 'Insider Threat' Program Avoids Whistleblowers
- FBI Keeps Secret How Massive Facial Recognition Database Will Work—It will contain 52 million images by 2015.
- Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City—"A sergeant in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department compared the experiment to Big Brother, even though he went ahead with it willingly. Is your city next?"
- LA Sheriff's Dept. On New Surveillance Program: We Knew The Public Wouldn't Like It, So We Kept It A Secret
- State of Surveillance: Police, Privacy and Technology
- Police Want your Home Video Surveillance Footage
- Austrlalia: Civil liberties fears at boom in police surveillance operations
- Snowden reporting lands Guardian and Post Pulitzers—"The publications were recognized for revealing 'widespread secret surveillance.'"
- Greenwald: Rep. King's Condemnation A 'Badge Of Honor'
- The Most Bizarre Response To The Pulitzers Yet, From The Guy Who Authorized CIA Torture
- Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian dedicate award to Snowden—"Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill accept George Polk award as Barton Gellman of the Washington Post is also honoured."
- Snowden revelations 'good for society'—"By two to one, British people say it was good, not bad, for society that newspapers reported the materials given to them by Edward Snowden."
- Edward Snowden installed as Glasgow University rector
- Snowden op-ed explains reasons for calling out Putin on live TV—"The whistleblower again speaks up to spark debate on state surveillance."
- Clapper bans US intelligence employees from 'unauthorised' media contact
- How the NSA shot itself in the foot by denying prior knowledge of Heartbleed vulnerability
- Snowden email service Lavabit loses contempt appeal
- Banksy Is Believed To Be Behind Eavesdropping Mural Near British Spy HQ
- UK Spies Considered Using Kinect, Microsoft 'Concerned'
- Reference Note on Russian Communications Surveillance
- U.S. Army Rejects Clemency for WikiLeaks Source Manning
- Bureau of Prisons Throws CIA Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou's Children Out of Visitors Room
- Julian Assange book to recount clash with Google chief Eric Schmidt
- Canadians' mental-health info routinely shared with FBI, U.S. customs—"Privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian found attempted suicide calls uploaded to international database."
- HMRC to sell taxpayers' financial data—"Firms could buy 'anonymised' financial details under scheme described by senior Tory MP as 'borderline insane.'"
- Dutch Student Sells All of His Personal Data for 350 Euros
- It's Time to Encrypt the Entire Internet
- Is Your VPN / Proxy Working? Check Your Torrent IP-Address
- Protests Continue Against Dropbox After Appointment of Condoleezza Rice to Board NYT
- Google updates TOS to clarify email scanning process—"New paragraph in the Web giant's terms of service is intended to more clearly explain the manner in which software automatically scans and analyzes the content of emails."
- When the restaurant you Googled Googles you back—"It's not the thought that counts; unexpected in-person customization feels icky."
- "Brightest Flashlight" Android app disclosed location of 50 million people, but FTC imposes no fine
- China launches campaign to purge Internet of porn, rumors and, critics say, dissent WaPo
- Mexico Marches Against New Internet Censorship Laws—¿Qué está pasando en México?
- Russian social network founder says he has been fired—"The founder of Russia's most popular social network site says he has been fired and that allies of President Putin have taken over his site."
- Two anonymous Twitter accounts blocked in Turkey—"Accounts linked to the spread of government corruption allegations appeared blocked less than a week after the social network agreed to shutter some accounts." In related news, Turkey denies saying it would leave the internet.
- Secret Plan to Advance Global Internet Censorship. ISPs to Act as "Internet Police"—"To be Implemented under TPP Auspices."
