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Edward Snowden seeks Russian passport

Russia has already granted Snowden permanent residency rights, his lawyer said last month, a vital step towards Russian citizenship

Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal: court

Warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional.

Contractor jailed for huge theft of classified US data

Harold Martin, 54, also received three years of supervised release from US District Judge Richard Bennett in Baltimore after pleading guilty to willful retention of national defence information

‘Govts increasingly going after messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram’

WASHINGTON: Internet freedom declined for a sixth consecutive year in 2016 as governments around the world cracked down on social media and messaging applications...

Skype, WeChat, Snapchat among least secure messaging apps

Snapchat, Microsoft's Skype and WeChat are placed among the least secure messaging apps and face constant threat of attack from cyber criminals and spying...

Snowden advises against using Google’s Allo

Google took aim Wednesday at the red-hot mobile messaging market, with a new artificial intelligence-powered Allo app that seeks to compete with popular rivals such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

Snowden was a “disgruntled” employee: report

WASHINGTON: Edward Snowden was a "disgruntled employee" and not a "principled whistleblower," according to a report from Congress released Thursday, which comes amid mounting pressure for a presidential pardon.

Edward Snowden talks about dramatising his life in film debut

SAN DEIGO: When former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden met with Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone to discuss a movie on his life, he never thought he would be making his own film debut.

Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism pages fell after Snowden revelations

NEW YORK: Internet traffic to Wikipedia pages summarizing knowledge about terror groups and their tools plunged nearly 30 percent after revelations of widespread Web monitoring by the U.S. National Security Agency, suggesting that concerns about government snooping are hurting the ordinary pursuit of information.

Snowden, Colombia, Greek islanders among Nobel Peace Prize tips

OSLO: Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, peace negotiators in Colombia or Greek islanders helping Syrian refugees were among tips for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize at the deadline for nominations on Monday.

U.S. whistleblower Snowden draws crowd with Twitter debut

WASHINGTON: Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs, started a Twitter account on Tuesday from exile in Russia with a simple handle - @snowden.

US wiretapped French presidents: WikiLeaks

PARIS: The United States wiretapped three French presidents, including current leader Francois Hollande, documents released online by WikiLeaks showed Tuesday.

Britain pulls spies as Moscow cracks Snowden files: reports

MOSCOW: Britain has been forced to remove some of its spies after Russia and China accessed the top-secret raft of documents taken by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, British media reported.

Snowden leaks: NSA planned hack of Google app store

WASHINGTON: The US National Security Agency developed plans to hack into data links to app stores operated by Google and Samsung to plant spyware on smartphones, a media report said Thursday.

NSA asked Germany to spy on tech giant Siemens

BERLIN: The US intelligence agency NSA asked its German partner service BND to spy on the European country's engineering and technology giant Siemens, a German newspaper reported Sunday.

US put Al Jazeera’s Islamabad bureau chief on terror list

WASHINGTON: US authorities placed an Al Jazeera journalist on a watch list of suspected terrorists, linking him to Al-Qaeda, a report said Friday, citing documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Artists place Snowden statue in US park

NEW YORK: A group of artists on Monday installed a bust of fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden on a war memorial in a New York park, though authorities quickly removed the illicit statue.

The phone in your pocket is threatened

BARCELONA: The boom in smartphones among often careless users has made happy hunting for hackers, whose virus attacks and hijacking of unprotected mobiles are multiplying, experts warn.

Facebook must face lawsuit over scanning of users' messages

OAKLAND: Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating its users' privacy by scanning the content of messages they send to other users for advertising purposes, a U.S. judge has ruled.

Snowden film 'CitizenFour' wins top documentary award

LOS ANGELES: "CitizenFour," filmmaker Laura Poitras's documentary about National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, was given the top award for best feature by the International Documentary Association on Friday.
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