Tag: Edward Snowden
Why we’re being watched: Top 6 Learn Liberty resources for understanding the new CIA leaks
March 10, 2017 | Post
Here are the top six Learn Liberty resources for interpreting Wikileaks’ “Vault 7” documents on the CIA.
What You Missed: Week of 10/14
October 14, 2016 | Post
Stranger Things, anarchist Spaniards, and Edward Snowden.
Friday Links
September 9, 2016 | Post
It was a wild week. Here are some highlights! Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute speaks on the philosophical foundations of the Constitution in this podcast. NYT criticizes Gary Johnson for Aleppo gaffe, misidentifies Aleppo three times. Read the story of how refugees in Hong Kong helped hide Edward Snowden for weeks following the NSA leaks. […]
When Your Foreign Spying Program Become a Tool to Control Your Own People
July 22, 2016 | Post
The recent public fight between Apple and the FBI as well as the controversy over the Edward Snowden leaks make it seem as though government spying on American people is a recent phenomenon. In fact, government surveillance of U.S. citizens goes back over 100 years. Martin Luther King, for instance, was spied on extensively for […]
Three Years After the Snowden Leaks: What We’ve Learned
June 12, 2016 | Post
Three years ago, Edward Snowden began leaking National Security Agency documents that detailed widespread and systemic U.S. government spying on American people. Among the surveillance programs Snowden revealed were “PRISM,” which mass collects the e-mail, voice, text, and video chats from tech companies, “XKeyscore,” which allows government analysts to search through massive databases of emails, […]
Apple, the FBI, and the San Bernardino Phone Controversy: Explained
March 16, 2016 | Post
You might have heard some news stories about how the FBI wants Apple’s help to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. But what’s the big deal with this story, anyway? What’s going on The FBI has asked for Apple’s help to break into a locked iPhone which belongs to one […]
Discussion Question: Liberty and Security
February 5, 2016 | Post
In the summer of 2013, Edward Snowden revealed to the newspaper The Guardian that the NSA was monitoring the metadata and content of every American citizen’s electronic communications (metadata is the details of the message – to whom, when, where, etc.) in order to protect America from terrorist threats. Is the NSA going too far? […]
New whistleblower reveals “the Drone Papers,” detailing Pres. Obama’s covert drone war
October 19, 2015 | Post
A “Second Snowden” leaked a cache of secret documents that has put the CIA’s and United States military’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) back into the spotlight. Drones have been used post-9/11 to carry out lethal strikes on those deemed enemies of the United States – even if the strikes take place outside of […]