The US threatened Yahoo with a $250,000-a-day fine for not giving data to PRISM
The company challenged the US government on constitutional grounds, but failed and was forced to hand over the US user data.
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The company challenged the US government on constitutional grounds, but failed and was forced to hand over the US user data.
A number of questions relating to a case involving the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s decision to not investigate Facebook, will now be dealt with by the European Court of Justice.
The mass collection of private phonecalls should be stopped, the review says.
Commenters on the social news website analysed images of a strange collection of wires found inside an extension lead — and identified it as surveillance equipment.
The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has said that senior government officials pressured his paper to destroy files related to its recent stories about the National Security Agency in the US.
Metropolitan Police confirmed that David Miranda, husband of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was held up as he passed through London’s Heathrow Airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro from Berlin.
The decision to grant a visa to Lon Snowden has angered the US and President Barack Obama has cancelled an upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.
PRISM has ‘woken Europe up’ to the need for strict rules.
The US intelligence leaker has applied for temporary political asylum in Russia with his lawyer discussing more details of the case today.
Is Edward Snowden a heroic whistleblower or a far less noble character? I think we’re still waiting for that question to be answered, writes Larry Donnelly.
In her most detailed comments on the spying claims made by Edward Snowden, the German chancellor defended the role of secret services in keeping populations safe.
The 30-year-old, who leaked details of the US’ vast surveillance operation, has agreed to an offer of political asylum from Venezuela, a top pro-Kremlin lawmaker said in a tweet that was later deleted.
A Russian official has confirmed to AFP that the US whistleblower and fugitive has applied for political asylum.
The former National Security Agency employee is reported to be heading for the Cuban capital of Havana before seeking asylum in Ecuador.
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister says it has received a formal request for asylum.
A State-backed newspaper has claimed extraditing Edward Snowden would leave Hong Kong ‘forever tarnished’.
In a statement, Apple says authorities ask for information mostly for police reasons – finding missing kids, tracking down vulnerable people, investigating crimes and preventing suicides.
The Guardian says diplomats at a finance ministers’ summit in 2009 were tapped – on the day that a British-hosted G8 begins.
The requests covered issues from child disappearances to petty crimes and terror threats.
A full-page newspaper ad, to coincide with an EU-US summit in Dublin, claims surveillance breaches United Nations conventions.
The disclosure of the American authorities’ surveillance programmes has led to a spike in the novel that has become synonymous with government overreach.
Booz Allen Hamilton confirmed in a statement that Edward Snowden’s employment with them had been “terminated”.
The European Commission says it will ask the US for assurances about the legality of its data harvesting this week.
William Hague says any proposals by British intelligence agencies to intercept data needs the approval of ministers.
Edward Snowden, 29, has been working at the National Security Agency for the past four years and has revealed himself after disclosing America’s vast, secret programme to monitor internet users.
The Guardian says Britain’s GCHQ surveillance agency has been able to access data harvested by the US’s ‘PRISM’ system.