NSA spying – The Huffington Post

People think telephone surveillance is a new thing but then, they're not old enough to have grown up with a party line. Eat your heart out, NSA. Sixty years ago, the entire country was listening in on each other's phone conversations.

Inga

Newspaper columnist and freelancer, author of book Inga Tells All. Lives in San Diego, CA with husband Olof and granddog Winston

In a stunning announcement, Eric Schmidt, head of Alphabet, Inc., the holding company that owns Google, said today in a press conference at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, that at midnight on New Year's Eve of this year, the iconic Google search engine will become property of a new nonprofit organization called Unlimited Years of Search, or UYS.

This week is #BannedBooksWeek and if you're wondering why we need an entire week to celebrate banned books you're probably one of those millennials who doesn't read anything longer than 140 characters.

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Outspeak Editor - in partnership with The Huffington Post

Sanjay Goel, University at Albany, State University of New York With the release of a new film about Edward Snowden, the man who revealed secret doc...

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Snowden is a helluva movie, kicking an audience's ass on a number of levels. I had a chance to see the film at a preview event; it opens everywhere on September 16. Go see it.

Peter Van Buren

Author of the forthcoming "Hooper's War," "Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent" and "We Meant Well"

Oliver Stone has never met an American fiasco he didn't like, lament, and, with any luck, lambaste in one of his films.

We need Snowden in America - for many good reasons. For those who see him as an enemy, we have always been taught to keep our enemies close to us and there is no logic to be found in forcing him into unsavory hands far from home.

Mark Weinstein

Leading privacy advocate, visionary social media pioneer, and founder of MeWe.

Co-authored by Pedram Gholipour Since Direct Recording Electronic voting machines first came into vogue in the U.S. in 2002, a team of cyber-academic...

Daniel Wagner

Managing Director of Risk Cooperative / Co-author of "Global Risk Agility and Decision Making".

In the ninety odd days before the election, a huge data dump of American secrets would strongly and negatively influence the election.

Admiral Michael Rogers has quite a task afoot, as Director of the National Security Agency and the military's Cyber Command Mission Force. Speaking at a luncheon organised by retired Captain Kevin Wensing, Admiral Rogers said that the agency will eventually contain 6200 dedicated computer personnel split into 133 teams.

Anna Wilding

White House Correspondent, Director, Film Executive, Producer, Actress,

If you were Vladimir Putin, or President Xi of China, what would you do if you had the entire archive of Hillary Clinton's emails, classified and unclassified, "deleted" and not, in your hands? What value to you would that be in your next round of negotiations with the president of the United States?

Peter Van Buren

Author of the forthcoming "Hooper's War," "Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent" and "We Meant Well"

The right to privacy is a constitutional gem. In the recent past its been assaulted and fraught with all manner of conspiracy theory. We are s...

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Even in the era of widening partisan gaps, it would be ill-advised to throw around indictments willy-nilly. Voters use James Comey's statements for the insights on Clinton's fitness for the presidency, not prison.

Anhvinh Doanvo

Writer @ The Hill. Former counterterrorism researcher at the Global Initiative. Graduate Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship finalist. @anhvinhdoanvo

In addition to its discussion of Saudi Consulate official Fahad Thumairy, there is also an FBI and CIA report that indicates that Khallad bin Attash was in Los Angeles in June 2000 -- compliments of "diplomatic arrangements" provided by Fahad Thumairy. To understand the relevance of this key piece of information, it is necessary to have some context.

If I had to choose one phrase to sum up America's efforts against terrorism since 9/11, it would be that lay definition of mental illness, doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.

Peter Van Buren

Author of the forthcoming "Hooper's War," "Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent" and "We Meant Well"

In the wake of yet another bizarre and uniquely American mass shooting, we once again we find ourselves bombarded by copypasta Facebook rants and half-literate pleas by experts on television.

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