Alejandro Majorkas, deputy US homeland security chief, tells Channel 4 News the United States wants to try Ed Snowden for leaking details of alleged phone and internet surveillance.
The reason so many online services are free is because they are selling your data out the back door: to advertising agencies or, in the case of Whisper, to websites like Buzzfeed.
The humble desk has a double life. On the one hand it is home to coffee rings and chewed biros. On the other, it is a window spies can use to access your private information. So how safe are you?
Laura Poitras’ movie CITZENFOUR captures the man at the centre of today’s Watergate moment – Edward Snowden – in a compelling story of whistleblowing and NSA snooping.
They came to the UK to seek refuge – but now exiled Bahraini democracy activists have been alarmed to find their online activities may have been under surveillance by the government of Bahrain.
Former American spy Edward Snowden has revealed new details of what he claims are US intelligence abuses of personal data collected via people’s communications. Economics Editor Paul Mason reports.
Speaking to the Don’t Spy on Us conference Stephen Fry urges democratic governments to step back from the “brink of totalitarianism” and stop spying on their citizens’ emails and internet usage.
US intelligence whistle-blower Edward Snowden says in a US television interview that he was “trained as a spy” and worked undercover in other countries for various government agencies.
Maybe it is time to forget traditional recruitment centres if you want a career in the military. The US Navy is looking for code breakers who can crack a puzzle and is using Facebook to find them.
A new report on how GCHQ and the UK’s other spy agencies used NSA data is published – but it leaves many questions still unanswered.
Jon Snow
Journalist Chapman Pincher, who celebrates his 100th birthday on Saturday, exposed the treacheries of cold war spies, from George Blake to John Vassall.
This week Senator John McCain moved to shift control of US drones from the CIA to the defence department. Meanwhile, fears grow about the application of activity-based intelligence to drones.
Ed Snowden’s latest leaks not only show spy agencies tapping into and hoovering up data from apps like Angry Birds – they also reveal what a treasure trove the information is.
Siobhan Kennedy
As another telecoms company asks whether the data mining programme Dishfire has been harvesting information from its customers, questions over the role of British agents begin to mount.
Sir David Omand, the former head of GCHQ, says it is “perfectly lawful” for British intelligence to collect metadata from people’s text messages via the secret US database Dishfire.