Apple under fire for scanning users' photos
From privacy groups to Edward Snowden
Apple's plans to scan users' iCloud Photos library against a database of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to look for matches and childrens' messages for explicit content has come under fire from privacy whistleblower Edward Snowden and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Snowden calls for spyware moratorium
Because states really will want to disarm
Governments must impose a global moratorium on the international spyware trade or face a world in which no mobile phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers, according to former spook Edward Snowden.
Snowden is now a permanent Russian resident
Even if he would like to come back
Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer said.
UK GCHQ violated human rights
No wonder the UK wanted out of the European Court
GCHQ's methods in carrying out bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and failed to provide enough surveillance safeguards, the European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled in a test case judgment.
US Government official sues journalists over Snowden
Free speech helps "foreign enemies"
A US government official has decided to sue the makers of an Oscar-contending documentary about Edward Snowden.