Reality Winner, the intelligence contractor who leaked to The Intercept and was quickly caught in June 2017 thanks to microdot printing, was sentenced to 63 months in prison on Thursday.
She had pleaded guilty on June 21 to a single count of unlawful retention and transmission of national defense information.
Edward Snowden offered the world details of US mass surveillance programs. Now, he's offering Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey his thoughts on the social network.
In a video chat on Tuesday, Snowden said he uses Twitter in a "crude" way, in part to keep other tweeters safe. He searches for information he's interested in but doesn't follow other accounts, except for @NSAgov. The reason: following other users might prompt US authorities to take an interest in them.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden can be asked to give evidence in person by a German committee probing the NSA's spying activities, the country's Federal Court of Justice has ruled.
Two former employees of the National Security Agency—including exiled whistleblower Edward Snowden—are speculating that Monday's leak of what are now confirmed to be advanced hacking tools belonging to the US government is connected to the separate high-profile hacks and subsequent leaks of two Democratic groups.
AN APPLICATION called TextSecure, which was available on iOS and apparently had some sort of appeal for Edward Snowden, has made its way onto Android at a time when Google is about to be told that such stuff is a no-no under a reignited Snoopers' Charter.
This is more than a name change, however. The firm behind it, Open Whisper Systems, said in a blog post that it has combined the existing TextSecure and RedPhone systems into one thing called Signal. TextSecure users should enjoy an easy transition through a software update.
A ruling by the Europe Union’s highest court today may create enormous headaches for US tech companies like Google and Facebook. But it could also provide more robust privacy protections for European citizens. And they all have Edward Snowden to thank—or blame.
Today, coinciding with Pope Francis' headline-grabbing visit to New York City, a day before he addresses the U.N. General Assembly here, the advocacy group Avaaz enlisted Edward Snowden, journalist Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda to bring attention to the launch of a new campaign seeking to strengthen privacy and protections for whistle-blowers with a new proposed treaty.
The Sunday Times reports that Russia and China de-encrypted files stolen by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, forcing the UK intelligence service MI6 to pull officers out of live operations in hostile countries.
"Western intelligence agencies say they have been forced into the rescue operations after Moscow gained access to more than [1 million] classified files," The London paper, citing senior UK officials, reports.
People shouldn't hold back on sending racy photos of themselves online for fear the images might be scooped up by government spies, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has said.
Snowden appeared for a sit-down interview Sunday night on HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." The host traveled to Russia to do the interview in person.
To make the issue hit home for his TV audience, Oliver asked Snowden which government programs might allow spies to access people's "d**k pics." Many of the programs would, Snowden said, but that shouldn't cause people to hold back.
Edward Snowden is heralded as both a hero and villain. A privacy vigilante and a traitor. It just depends who you ask. The revelations he made about the NSA's surveillance programs have completely changed the face of online security, and changed the way everyone looks at the internet and privacy.
