Watch video from last night, when I talked WALKAWAY with Edward Snowden at...
Last night, the whistleblower Edward Snowden and appeard on stage at the New York Public Library's LIVE from the NYPL series, to discuss my novel Walkaway. It was a hell of an event, even (or maybe...
View ArticleMy column about Snowden, surveillance and WALKAWAY in the International...
I have a column in today's International Business Times: Unchecked Surveillance Technology Is Leading Us Towards Totalitarianism, where I discuss this week's NYPL event with Edward Snowden and how...
View ArticleDonate to support GnuPG, the backbone of email privacy and security
It's been two years since the net came together to raise funds to support Werner Koch, who maintains the absolutely vital GnuPG email encryption system, used daily by millions to protect the privacy...
View ArticleJournalism After Snowden: essays about a free press in a surveillance state
Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State is a new essay collection from Columbia Journalism Review Books with contributions from Ed Snowden, Alan Rusbridger...
View ArticleIn an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a...
In July 2016, Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden presented their research on journalist-friendly mobile surveillance resistance at the first MIT Media Lab Forbidden Research conference; a little...
View ArticleSnowden: Public money shouldn't fund software the public isn't allowed to fix
Paul Brown writes, "The FSFE's 'Public Money? Public Code!' campaign wants to convince lawmakers that software created with public funds should be made available to the public under Free Software...
View ArticleSnowden helped design an app that turns your old phone into a surveillance...
In cryptographic and security circles, the "evil maid" problem describes a class of attacks in which a piece of unguarded hardware, is tampered with by someone who gains physical access to it: for...
View ArticleA detailed look at how US police forces collude with spy agencies to cover up...
Since the 1970s, spy agencies have been feeding police forces tips about who to arrest and where to look for evidence, despite the illegality of their practicing surveillance within the USA. This...
View ArticleEFF to NSA: you scammed your way to another six years of warrantless spying,...
Last week, cowards from both sides of the aisle caved into America's lawless spy agencies, and today bipartisan senators reprised that cowardice to ensure that the Senate would not get a chance to...
View ArticleThe first-ever independent audit of whistleblower retaliation in US spy...
For six months, the Intelligence Community Inspector General office investigated the cases of 190 whistleblowers who went through US spy agency channels to report corruption, waste, fraud, abuse and...
View ArticleOnce again, a stalkerware company's had its servers pwned and wiped by a...
It's been less than a year since a public-spirited hacker broke into the servers of Florida stalkerware vendor Retina-X, wiping out all the photos and data the company's customers had stolen from...
View ArticleThe Internet Archive is hosting a symposium on John Perry Barlow on April 7...
EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow died last month, and though his death had been long coming, it's left a hole in the hearts of the people who loved him and whom he inspired. We're celebrating Barlow's...
View ArticleISO rejects the NSA's IoT crypto standard, believing it to be backdoored
For three years, International Standards Organization has been wrangling over which cryptographic algorithms will be incorporated into a standard for interoperability in "Internet of Things" gadgets;...
View ArticleNSA report discloses that the agency tripled its surveillance of Americans in...
One effect of the Snowden leaks is that the NSA now makes an annual disclosure of the extent of its domestic surveillance operations; that's how we know that the NSA collected 534 million phone call...
View ArticleWhich windowless American buildings are secret AT&T/NSA listening posts?
In 2016, Ryan Gallagher and Henrik Moltke published a long, Snowden-derived investigation into AT&T's secret NSA listening station in New York City, and AT&T's extensive complicity in mass,...
View ArticleEU's top court rules against the UK mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the UK spy agency GCHQ acted illegally when it engaged in mass-scale domestic surveillance of every Briton's electronic communications, a programme...
View ArticleEdward Snowden on Malkia Cyril, a multigenerational black rights activist on...
For its 25th anniversary, Wired Magazine asked numerous luminaries to pick a figure from the digital world to celebrate; Edward Snowden chose EFF Pioneer Award Winner Malkia Cyril, executive director...
View ArticleEFF and McSweeney's collaborated on a publication: "The End of Trust"
The End of Trust will be McSweeney's issue 54, the first-ever all-nonfiction issue of McSweeney's, with more than 30 contributions on "surveillance in the digital age." Contributors include Edward...
View Article"The End of Trust" - EFF/McSweeney's collaboration on privacy and...
The End of Trust (previously) is a special issue of McSweeney's, produced in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the themes of technology, privacy and surveillance: it's in...
View ArticleAssessing Snowden's legacy, five years on
Five and a half years ago, Edward Snowden put his life on the line, gave up his country, and went into exile, just to reveal that he had been part of a widespread, illegal mass-surveillance program...
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