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Activists ask US court to stop phone record collections by government – report

10:32 15/07/2015 Activists for American civil liberties groups made a request to a federal court in New York to declare law, allowing the National Security Agency to collect phone records, unconstitutional.

Wikimedia sues NSA over upstream mass surveillance

17:32 10/03/2015 Wikimedia Foundation, nonprofit organization that controls and operates the Wikipedia website, is filing a suit against American National Security Agency (NSA) over the expansive surveillance program which involves the Wikipedia.

Attorney General of Germany says no tangible evidence on Merkel’s NSA wiretap

15:27 11/12/2014 The Supreme Court of Germany has yet to uncover any tangible evidence supporting the claim that Chancellor Angela Merkel phone was tapped by American intelligence services, according to Attorney General of Harald Range.

Snowden believes US intelligence follows him in Moscow

11:15 14/08/2014 Edward Snowden believes US intelligence agencies spy on him in Russia where he was granted a three-year residence permit earlier this month.

Snowden granted 3-year residence permit in Russia

15:11 07/08/2014 Former NSA contractor and CIA employee Edward Snowden has been granted a Russian residence permit for three years, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena announced on Thursday at a news conference in Moscow.

US is losing interest in a deal with Snowden, says NSA official

12:22 28/07/2014 There’s less need now for the Obama administration to make a deal to allow Edward Snowden to return home than there was after his wave of surveillance disclosures began more than a year ago, NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett said during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum.

NSA says reports about eavesdropping on American citizens are exaggeration

10:06 08/07/2014 Media reports suggesting that nine out of ten surveillance targets are ordinary Internet users are an exaggeration, an NSA press spokesperson told RIA Novosti.

Germany launches criminal investigation into Merkel’s NSA wiretap - report

13:58 04/06/2014 The Attorney General of Germany Harald Range will conduct a criminal investigation into the alleged tapping of chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone by the US National Security Agency, German daily Local writes on Wednesday.

Snowden wants to go home but will ask to extend asylum in Russia

11:22 29/05/2014 Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who was granted political asylum in Moscow last summer, would like to return home to the United States under certain conditions, but will instead ask to extend his temporary asylum.

Germany wants Zuckerberg to testify in NSA case - report

10:33 23/05/2014 Members of the German parliamentary commission, which is investigating the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) questionable activity, want the heads of US high-tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Google, to testify to the Bundestag, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Former US congressman Ron Paul petitions for Snowden’s clemency

12:51 14/02/2014 Former congressman and presidential hopeful Ron Paul launched a petition demanding clemency in the US for fugitive NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, whose grant of asylum in Russia is set to expire on July 31 of this year.

US senator sues Obama over NSA surveillance

17:45 13/02/2014 Kentucky Senator Rand Paul filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday against US President Barrack Obama and various other high-ranking officials over the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance activities.

NSA monitored former German chancellor Schröder's phone - report

12:04 05/02/2014 The National Security Agency monitored former German chancellor Schroder's phone, Süddeutsche Zeitung writes on Wednesday citing anonymous sources and Edward Snowden's revelations.

No evidence Snowden spied for Russia - US Senator

10:23 29/01/2014 A senior US lawmaker said Tuesday that she has seen no evidence that intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was working with Russia when he disclosed troves of documents on classified US spying programs.

Snowden concerned about threats from US – lawyer

17:54 21/01/2014 National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was granted temporary asylum in Russia in August 2013, expressed his concerns over threatening allegations in US mass media and plans to file a request for protection with the Russian law-enforcement authorities.

Snowden joins Freedom of the Press Foundation's board

10:27 15/01/2014 US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden will sit on the board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the American NGO said on its website.

NSA surveillance not that great at preventing terrorism – report

18:40 13/01/2014 Despite official claims that certain NSA surveillance programs have proved instrumental in averting dozens of terror threats, these methods appear to have proven significantly less valuable than their more traditional counterparts in terms of having provided impetus for the launch of terrorism investigations.

European Parliament Committee urges action against NSA surveillance program

15:48 10/01/2014 After vehemently condemning mass surveillance programs exposed in recent months by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, a draft report published this week by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs called on the US and EU member states to impose a ban on blanket mass surveillance and bulk personal-data processing.

Fugitive NSA analyst Snowden says mission accomplished

13:58 24/12/2013 Former US security contractor Edward Snowden has accomplished his mission of sparking debate by revealing classified United States government documents about the programs he worked on, he said in his first sit-down interview with journalists since arriving in Russia.

US Federal Court asserts NSA surveillance likely unconstitutional

14:41 17/12/2013 A US federal court issued an injunction Monday barring the US government from collecting plaintiffs’ data in accordance with an NSA surveillance program revealed to the world by fugitive NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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