Snowden Updates

A Web Guerrilla Breaking News From the Jungle: Inside Glenn Greenwald’s Mountaintop Home Office by David Carr at the NYTimes “On approaching Glenn Greenwald’s home office high in the jungle-encrusted mountains above Rio de Janeiro, all is tranquil, bucolic even. A gurgling stream at the entrance frames the idyll. And then the dogs notice the incursion. […]

Online Privacy: How Did We Get Here?

From the description: As technology has evolved over the past two centuries, so have our expectations about privacy. This new digital world allows us to connect with each other with increasing ease, but it has also left our personal information readily available, and our privacy vulnerable. Cultural norms have pushed us all online, seemingly at […]

NSA Spying: Just the Basics

Edward Snowden, a former worker for the CIA and NSA, has leaked top secret government documents that seem to show that the US government collects large swaths of electronic data of its citizens, including data about phone calls, emails, Internet usage, etc. He is now hiding in Hong Kong. Read the original exclusive from The […]

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