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The NSA files

  • NSA files decoded
    Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained

Exclusives

  • Phone records data

    NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

    Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration
  • Computer screen data

    Revealed
    How US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security

  • Documents show GCHQ has had access to the NSA's Prism programme since at least June 2010

    UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation

  • GCHQ composite

    GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits

  • Access to the future 3

    GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications

Debate

  • Alan Rusbridger

    Obama's NSA review gives the lie to Britain's timid platitudes: a debate is possible

    Alan Rusbridger
  • British playwright Tom Stoppard

    State surveillance of personal data: what is the society we wish to protect?

    Tom Stoppard
  • Google Data Center in Council Bluffs

    The primary NSA issue isn't privacy, it's authority

    Jeff Jarvis
  • Chair Lord Burns, Jack Straw, Lord Carlile, Dame Patricia Hodgson and Lord Howard

    The Guardian view on the freedom of information commission: a very British farce

Latest

  • FILE - In this June 23, 2013 file photo, a television screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller _ a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government s power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File )

    The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong

  • Edward Snowden

    Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden

  • Edward Snowden at the 2019 Web Summit in Lisbon in November. US authorities did not seek to block publication of Snowden’s book but rather to seize all proceeds.

    US entitled to $5.2m from Edward Snowden's book sales, court rules

  • Snowden at a videoconference in Estoril in May 2017. Snowden wrote on Twitter: ‘I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful.’

    NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on

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