Electronic Frontier Foundation

On 6/5, 65 things we know about NSA surveillance that we didn’t know a year ago
On 6/5, 65 things we know about NSA surveillance that we didn’t know a year ago 05 June 2014 EFF

It’s been one year since the Guardian first published the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, that demonstrated that the NSA was conducting dragnet surveillance on millions of innocent people.

Demand an end to mass Surveillance: Support the people’s principles
Demand an end to mass Surveillance: Support the people’s principles 26 November 2013 EFF

In 2013, we learned digital surveillance by world governments knows no bounds. Their national intelligence and other investigative agencies can capture our phone calls, track our location, peer into our address books, and read our emails. They do this often in secret, without adequate public oversight, and in violation of our human rights.

More than a hundred global groups make a principled stand against surveillance
More than a hundred global groups make a principled stand against surveillance 31 July 2013 EFF

For some time now there has been a need to update understandings of existing human rights law to reflect modern surveillance technologies and techniques.

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