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The man who oversaw the Top Secret investigation into my work in exposing the NSA's unconstitutional system of mass surveillance now believes "we are in a better place" because I came forward. He disputes the methods, but admits it was net-good.
In another decade, I'll be home. twitter.com/shanvav/status…
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Wow, the Financial Times (@FT) has my memoir #PermanentRecord as a book of the year. Have you read it yet? What did you think? static.macmillan.com/static/holt/pe…
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A journalist (@drzax) monitored their devices and found 72% of traffic was tracking-related, with 46 different servers contacted on the second night while they slept. Averaged across a week, how frequently were their devices transmitting? Answer in link: abc.net.au/news/2018-11-1…
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Y'all that answered "every ten minutes" might just wanna go ahead and throw your phone in the river before you read the answer, because you're not going to like it.
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47% so far have answered this question incorrectly. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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is this real twitter.com/MichaelToole/s…
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@xor let us give thanks that anime is a thing now
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@MichaelToole It's like a lifetime achievement award. Lupin is one of my favorite series.
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A donation to @FreedomofPress on #GivingTuesday helps us develop @SecureDrop, the high-security whistleblower submission system relied on every day by the world's most important newsrooms. Help us fight for the future of news, and keep whistleblowers safe: freedom.press/donate/
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One step forward, eight steps back. twitter.com/dnvolz/status/…
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That even the greatest apologists for mass surveillance in Congress are now abandoning its most indefensible incarnations as ineffective and excessive is of historic significance. It marks the beginning of the long road to real reform. twitter.com/dnvolz/status/…
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Nine years before September 11th, AG Barr secretly became the godfather of mass surveillance. Today Senators are finally calling for an ethics investigation into how such an obviously unconstitutional program ever came to be authorized, and how it currently operates. twitter.com/charlie_savage…
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The government may steal a dollar, but it cannot erase the idea that earned it. I wrote this book, Permanent Record, for you, and I hope the government's ruthless desperation to prevent its publication only inspires you read it—and then gift it to another.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/…
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@v3ritas1337 I'd recommend donating to the families that helped me in Hong Kong. They need it more than I do. You can find a link here: fortherefugees.com/donate/
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Absent sweeping reform, this is the whole world in ten years. Remember: both parties in the US defend mass surveillance programs. China's "advantage" here is not technological, but that there's no strong civil opposition to slow the descent into nightmare. nytimes.com/2019/12/17/tec…
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It's *snow secret* you tortured Gul Rahman for weeks at a black site, then chained him naked to a concrete floor until he died in the near-winter cold.
It's *snow secret* that today's CIA Director, Gina Haspel, was then the head of a related torture site.
vox.com/2014/12/9/7360… twitter.com/CIA/status/120…
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The subtitles are very slightly more readable in this version of the video (via reddit).
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Even at protests, your phone is emitting a beacon, one that’s invisible to the human eye. This signal is captured and collected, sometimes many times per minute, and keeps broadcasting long after the protesters head to their homes and take off their masks. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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It is a federal crime to open a piece of junk mail addressed to someone else. Listening to a phone call without a court order can also be a federal crime.
But an increasing number of companies are warrantlessly tracking—and recording—your every movement. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Your smartphone broadcasts your exact location thousands of times per day to dozens of different companies. Each has the power to follow individuals wherever they go, in near-real time.
That’s not a glitch in the system. It is the system.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Citizens would rise up in outrage if the government mandated that every person carry a tracking device revealing their location and identity 24 hours a day. Yet in the last decade we have become, app by app, subject to just such a system. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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À Noël, pensez à faire un don de dernière minute à @4TheRefugees. Je prie pour que le gouvernement du Canada réunisse les familles qui m'ont protégé et met enfin fin aux menaces contre elles. Link: fortherefugees.com/donate/
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À Noël, pensez à faire un don de dernière minute à @4TheRefugees. Je prie pour que le gouvernement du Canada réunisse les familles qui m'ont protégé et met enfin fin aux menaces contre elles. Link: fortherefugees.com/donate/ Story: ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/14475…
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