Journalists in France are facing potential jail sentences in an unprecedented case over their handling of secret documents detailing the countryās involvement in the Yemen conflict
This story is the product of a two-year collaboration between U.S. news website The Intercept and the Japanese broadcaster NHK. The project…
He Refused. Now He Faces Prison in the U.K.
Josh Walker Fought Against ISIS. He Almost Got Killed. Now Heās Charged With Terrorism
Denny has brought to life images from the trove of classified files on government spying leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
Canadaās electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyberweapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversariesā infrastructure, according to newly…
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a āGoogle-likeā search engine built to share more than 850 billion records
Huge volumes of private emails, phone calls, and internet chats are being intercepted by the National Security Agency with the secret cooperation of more foreign governments than previously known
Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order ā and this has turned them into unwitting targets of the National Security Agency
If the NSA truly wants to gain citizensā trust, it should rethink its slippery public relations strategy
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