- ICC to examine claims that British troops carried out war crimes in Iraq—"Court to conduct preliminary examination of around 60 alleged cases of unlawful killing and claims of mistreatment."
- Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Force-Feeding Syrian Held at Guantánamo NYT
- Released Pakistani Prisoner Named Taliban Military Commander
- Cohen: The GOP's Benghazi hangup is baffling—"What do Republicans think another congressional hearing will prove?" WaPo
- How Much Money Can Republicans Raise Off Benghazi? Ask Darrell Issa
- Republicans Are Already Ignoring The Benghazi Special Committee They've Been Begging For
- Show Us the Drone Memos—"We must see the legal case for executing a United States citizen without a trial." NYT
- The ultra-lethal drones of the future
- Pakistan Wants Drones, and It Doesn't Need America's Permission to Get Them
- "The Stuff I Saw Really Began to Disturb Me": How the U.S. Drone War Pushed Snowden to Leak NSA Docs
- License plate readers spark privacy, public safety debate
- Erie County Sheriff to legislature: My surveillance powers are none of your business
- Six Reasons to Be Afraid of the Private Sector/Government Security State
- The Man Who Knows Too Much—"Glenn Greenwald is the gatekeeper of Edward Snowden's NSA secrets. And he's about to drop the biggest bomb yet."
- NSA may be putting Israeli security interests above U.S., new document reveals—"Journalist Glenn Greenwald's new book, 'No Place to Hide,' includes materials on intelligence relations with Israel."
- NSA Gave Canada Money For Surveillance Program
- Glenn Greenwald reveals 7 new NSA crimes against graphic design
- Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
- New York Times under fire for spiking NSA leaks story in 2004—"White House told paper's editors it would be 'dangerous' to run the story."
- Greenwald: NYT's new editor 'subservient to national security state'
- U.S. revealed secret legal basis for NSA program to Sprint, documents show—"New documents, interviews indicate intelligence community shared details to ward off court challenge." WaPo
- DOJ Still Trying To Hide The Fact It Flat Out Lied To The Supreme Court About Domestic Surveillance
- Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA—"A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why?"
- Nosey Smurf, Gumfish and Foggybottom: The snooping tools that may have got GCHQ in hot water
- British Spies Face Legal Action Over Secret Hacking Programs
- Washington spends £200m creating intelligence hub in Britain
- The official US position on the NSA is still unlimited eavesdropping power—"One year after Snowden, the government is defending – in not-so-plain sight – the 'paramount' power to spy on every call and email between you and your friends abroad."
- Obama's NSA spying reforms fail to satisfy cyber experts
- Photos of an NSA "upgrade" factory show Cisco router getting implant—"Servers, routers get 'beacons' implanted at secret locations by NSA's TAO team." That's gonna sting.
- 80 Tech Companies Cooperating with NSA, Claims Wikileaks
- Top tech titans get thumbs-up in EFF transparency report—"The advocacy group says Apple, Facebook, Google, and others have done a lot to protect users' privacy."
- Snowden Forced Silicon Valley to Value Privacy and Transparency
- Internet Engineering Task Force Considers Making Surveillance Mitigation A Standard Part Of Its Specifications
- Edward Snowden's Other Motive for Leaking—"He wasn't just trying to spark democratic debate on surveillance. He also hoped his revelations would prompt programmers to build better encryption."
- Encrypted or not, Skype communications prove "vital" to NSA surveillance—"Newly published memo leaked by Edward Snowden details the value of Skype data."
- Microsoft: NSA and GCHQ are capable of monitoring 'secure' browsing using Tor
- Startup pitches snoop-proof (even NSA-proof) email
- More People Are Encrypting Their Web Traffic In The Wake Of NSA Spying Revelations
- EU court backs 'right to be forgotten': Google must amend results on request—Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales is astonished by the decision that has far-reaching implications.
- Anti-cyberbullying bill could harm privacy rights, Amanda Todd's mother warns—"Parents shouldn't have to 'sacrifice'their children's privacy rights to make them safe from 'cyberbullying, 'sextortion' and revenge pornography.'"
- Shutterfly congratulates people without babies on their new arrivals in email.—"Shutterfly's error is just the latest reminder of how closely companies and advertisers are tracking everything about our personal lives."
- Lawsuit alleges unauthorized publication of personal genetics data—"Proposed class-action suit says Family Tree violated Alaska Genetic Privacy Act."
- Never Forgetting a Face—"Joseph Atick, a pioneer of facial-recognition systems, is now cautioning against their unfettered use. Never, he says, should they undermine anyone’s choice to remain anonymous." NYT
- Government gags Twitter and Yahoo over grand jury subpoena, court blocks companies from fighting back
- US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet'
- Police ask blogger to remove tweet about Ukip—"Concerns raised about stifling of political debate after police visit man following complaint from Ukip councillor over policy tweet."
- How a Power-Mad Illinois Mayor Launched a Police Crusade Against a Parody Twitter Account—Jim Adirs' petty and likely illegal retaliation backfires as the ACLU steps in to represent Jon Daniel.
- UK Government Willing To Block EU Net Neutrality Deal—"The British government wants to keep its ability to block internet content."
- President Rouhani Stresses Iranian Citizens' Right to Freely Access Internet
- 5 Freedoms You'll Lose Without Net Neutrality
- Did Regulators Break the Internet or Did They Save It? Yes. NYT
- The FCC Thinks We're All Idiots
- Can AOL save the internet?—"Despite Google having the biggest tech lobby in Washington aside from the big internet service providers, AOL — the company best known for giving the world dial-up internet in the '90s and being one of the country's largest ISPs — has outspent Google on net neutrality issues."
