Snowden

Edward Snowden seeks Russian passport

Russia has already granted Snowden permanent residency rights, his lawyer said last month, a vital… Read More

Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal: court

Warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence… Read More

Contractor jailed for huge theft of classified US data

Harold Martin, 54, also received three years of supervised release from US District Judge Richard… Read More

‘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… Read More

Skype, WeChat, Snapchat among least secure messaging apps

Snapchat, Microsoft's Skype and WeChat are placed among the least secure messaging apps and face… Read More

Snowden advises against using Google’s Allo

Google took aim Wednesday at the red-hot mobile messaging market, with a new artificial intelligence-powered… Read More

Snowden was a “disgruntled” employee: report

WASHINGTON: Edward Snowden was a "disgruntled employee" and not a "principled whistleblower," according to a… Read More

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… Read More

Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism pages fell after Snowden revelations

NEW YORK: Internet traffic to Wikipedia pages summarizing knowledge about terror groups and their tools… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

US wiretapped French presidents: WikiLeaks

PARIS: The United States wiretapped three French presidents, including current leader Francois Hollande, documents released… Read More

Britain pulls spies as Moscow cracks Snowden files: reports

MOSCOW: Britain has been forced to remove some of its spies after Russia and China… Read More

Snowden leaks: NSA planned hack of Google app store

WASHINGTON: The US National Security Agency developed plans to hack into data links to app… Read More

NSA asked Germany to spy on tech giant Siemens

BERLIN: The US intelligence agency NSA asked its German partner service BND to spy on… Read More

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,… Read More

Artists place Snowden statue in US park

NEW YORK: A group of artists on Monday installed a bust of fugitive US intelligence… Read More

The phone in your pocket is threatened

BARCELONA: The boom in smartphones among often careless users has made happy hunting for hackers,… Read More

Facebook must face lawsuit over scanning of users' messages

OAKLAND: Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating its users'… Read More

Snowden film 'CitizenFour' wins top documentary award

LOS ANGELES: "CitizenFour," filmmaker Laura Poitras's documentary about National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, was… Read More