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Katherine Gun, a junior Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) official leaves Bow Street Magistrates court in London with her lawyer.

Iraq ‘Dirty Tricks’ Tale Gets Star Treatment, But Big Questions Remain

The dramatic but little-told story of a British intelligence whistleblower who tried to raise the alarm over a questionable spying campaign to bolster the cause for the Iraq War…
A participant attends the 34C3 Chaos Communication Congress of the Chaos Computer Club on December 27, 2017 in Leipzig, Germany.

Why the Ghost Keys ‘Solution’ to Encryption is No Solution

The use of applications such as Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook Messenger for communications secured by end-to-end encryption has exploded over the past few years. Two…
Aerial photograph of the Government Communications Headquarters, also known as GCHQ, Cheltenham Gloucestershire.

Give Up the Ghost: A Backdoor by Another Name

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ,) the UK’s counterpart to the National Security Agency (NSA), has fired the latest shot in the crypto wars. In a post to Lawfare…

New U.K. Law Fails European Court Standards on Mass Interception Disclosed by Snowden

The U.K. government trots out its new surveillance legislation as curing the ills identified by the European Court of Human Rights. That's not the case. The Court’s judgment…
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10 Questions about the UK Spying on Amnesty International

Yesterday, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal informed Amnesty International that British intelligence agency GCHQ had spied on the human rights organization by intercepting…
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Latest UK Judgment on Post-Snowden Surveillance

On June 22, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) gave its latest judgment in the post-Snowden surveillance litigation brought by several NGOs against the UK Government…
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Chris Soghoian Q+A: The Next Chapter of Surveillance Reform

I recently conducted a wide-ranging Q+A with the ACLU’s chief technologist, Chris Soghoian, on a range of topics, from the “fraudulent” nature of the recent debate over Section…
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UK Parliament’s Intell and Security Committee: Intelligence agencies “do not seek to circumvent the law”

The British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) published its report on privacy and security yesterday, following an 18-month inquiry prompted by the Edward…
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Post-Snowden Inquiry by UK Parliamentary Committee Recommends New Laws

Today, the Intelligence and Security Committee of the British Parliament published a report entitled “Privacy and Security: A modern and transparent legal framework.”  The…
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UK Surveillance Watchdog Releases Report Endorsing UK Surveillance Programs

As we covered in yesterday’s Early Edition, Sir Anthony May, the UK’s Interception of Communications Commissioner (the UK’s surveillance watchdog), has concluded…
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“Tweet Roll”: Reactions to Glenn Greenwald’s article on “How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet”

As reported in this morning’s Daily News Roundup, Glenn Greenwald’s latest piece for The Intercept takes a look at how western intelligence agencies “are attempting…
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