- Time Person of the Year Runner-Up: Edward Snowden
- No Contest: Edward Snowden is Person of the Year
- Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013—"NSA whistleblower's victory, for exposing the scale of internet surveillance, follows that of Chelsea Manning last year."
- New York Times reporters sue DHS—"Two New York Times reporters are suing the Department of Homeland Security for records of a questioning they say occurred at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport earlier this year."
- Snowden docs had NYTimes exec fearing for his life—"Informing the American people about how their government spies on them can be risky business for journalists."
- NYPD Orders Precincts to Deny Journalists Access to Crime Reports
- Top court: Shield Law protects Fox reporter—"In a significant victory for the media in New York, the state's highest court on Tuesday ruled that a Fox News reporter who broke a scoop on the 2012 'Dark Knight Rises' massacre in suburban Denver should not be compelled to reveal her sources in a Colorado court."
- Chris Hedges: Shooting the Messenger—"The differences among Snowden, Manning, Assange and Hammond should not be permitted to diminish the vital importance of all their acts."
- ACLU: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's NSA 'reforms': bad for privacy, bad for business
- "We cannot trust" Intel and Via's chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say—"Following NSA leaks from Snowden, engineers lose faith in hardware randomness."
- NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking WaPo
- Silicon Valley, not Washington, needs to lead on privacy reform
- Twitter gobbles up more cookies with retargeted ads, says users have privacy choices—"Twitter will start delivering targeted ads on mobile devices based on Web browsing data."
- FTC finds popular flashlight app for Android illegally sharing data with advertisers
- Machines of Loving Grace—"I'd rather risk becoming a terrorist's victim than live under a surveillance state."
- Dear Pres. Obama: Dissent isn't Possible in a Surveillance State
- US and Europe are not functioning democracies with 'this level of surveillance'
- State of Deception—"Why won't the President rein in the intelligence community?"
- Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
- How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter—"From the workplace to our private lives, American society is starting to resemble a police state."
- Police overkill has become the default American policy—"The term 'police state' used to be brushed off as paranoid hyperbole. Not anymore." Salon
- DOJ Agency Warns Of Police Militarization
- Court To Consider California's DNA Collection Law—"A federal appeals court appeared ready last year to strike down as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy a controversial California law requiring police to collect DNA samples from every person arrested in the state."
- Canadian Conservatives' Cyber-Bullying Bill — A Pretext for Expanding Police Surveillance
- Police Requests for Cellphone Data Surge
- Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA—"The National Security Agency isn't the only government entity secretly collecting data from people's cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too."
- Indiana State Police tracking cellphones - but won't say how or why
- Inside Wisconsin's Bipartisan Effort to End Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
- Cops' Cellphone Data Collection Challenged—"Law enforcement officials' use of cellphone data is insufficiently regulated, according to Sen. Edward Markey, and innocent consumers' privacy rights are at risk."
- CIA's anti-terrorism effort called 'colossal flop'—"CIA officers given 'non-official cover,' often posing as business executives, tried to collect intelligence on terrorists. The NOC program reportedly has had few successes."
- Afghan president lashes out at US 'threats'—"Karzai says the U.S. is 'absolutely' acting like a colonial power in its attempts to force him to sign the bilateral security agreement by the end of this year."
- Pakistani immigrant sues US over false arrest in war on terrorism—Held for 10 months in solitary.
- Congressmen Call For Declassification Of 9/11 Files Discussing Hijacker Links To Saudi Government
- 'Dirty Wars' questions the war on terror
- Witness In No Fly List Trial, Who Was Blocked From Flying To The Trial, Shows That DOJ Flat Out Lied In Court
- TSA agent confiscates sock monkey's toy pistol
- TSA Made a Record $531,395 on Loose Change This Year
- New GOP Plan Would Save Military From Sequestration By Cutting Social Security
- Global Hawk drone flies into budget battle between Pentagon, Congress—"The Air Force planned to stop buying and flying the Global Hawk drone to save about $2.5 billion over five years. Lawmakers backed by the defense lobby have scuttled that and other cost-cutting efforts."
- U.S. Bomber Planes at $81 Billion Seen 47% More Than Plan
- The defense lobby—"This is a map of the major defense contractors surrounded by Washington lobby firms representing them."
- Opinion: To improve the U.S. military, shrink it
