L #39;effetto Snowden sul giornalismo
With the emergence of a widespread surveillance system in the NSA files, the Edward Snowden case has deeply affected journalism, both in terms of the role played by the media and of the practices...

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Snowden blocked from testifying before German parliament
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is no longer welcome to testify before the German parliament. Many members of parliament have been calling for Snowden to testify about...

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Planet Snowvio, "I Got You Babe", by Jay Critchley
This is the debut staged reading of Planet Snowvio at UC Berkeley Art Museum on 4-27-14. Edward Snowden of the NSA meets Mario Savio of the Free Speech Movement (50th anniversary) in this experimen...

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Edward Snowden Statement @ Munk Debate on State Surveillance
05/02/2014 WATCH "MUNK DEBATE ON STATE SURVEILLANCE: GREENWALD/OHANIAN VS HAYDEN/DERSHOWITZ" HERE: http://leaksource.info/2014/05/03/munk-debate-on-state-surveillance-greenwald-ohanian-vs-hayden-d...

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TORONTO (AP) - Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence contractor who has been leaking information about government data collection programs, said Friday before a debate on state surveillance that entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance.

Snowden, who appeared via video link at Torontos Roy Thomson Hall during a semi-annual Munk debate that state surveillance today is a euphemism for mass surveillance.

Its no longer based on the traditional practice of targeted taps based on some individual suspicion of wrongdoing, Snowden said in the brief video. It covers phone calls, emails, texts, search history, what you buy, who your friends are, where you go, who you love.

The video was screened as two of the debaters - former U.S. National Security Administration director General Michael Hayden and well-known civil liberties lawyer and Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz - argued in favor of the debate statement: Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms.

In opposition were Glenn Greenwald, the journalist whose work based on the Snowden leaks won a Pulitzer Prize last month, and Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of social media website reddit.

The Snowden documents, first leaked last June, revealed that the U.S. government has programs in place to spy on hundreds of millions of peoples emails, social networking posts, online chat histories, browsing histories, phone records, phone calls and texts. Nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet, in the words of one leaked document.

Greenwald opened the debate by condemning the NSAs own slogan, which he said appears repeatedly throughout its own documents: Collect it all.

What is state surveillance? If it were about targeting in a discriminate way against those causing harm, there would be no debate, said Greenwald. The actual system of state surveillance has almost nothing to do with that. What state surveillance actually is, is defended by the NSAs actual words, that phrase they use over and over again, collect it all.

Hayden and Dershowitz spent the rest of the hour and a half or so denying that the pervasive surveillance described by Snowden and Greenwald even exists and that the ongoing surveillance programs are necessary to prevent terrorism.

Collect it all doesnt mean collect it all! said Hayden, drawing laughs from the audience.

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Edward Snowden appears via video at Toronto debate

TORONTO Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence contractor who has been leaking information about government data collection programs, says entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance.

Snowden appeared via video link at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall during a Munk Debate about state surveillance Friday night.

Former U.S. National Security Administration director General Michael Hayden and well-known civil liberties lawyer and Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, argued in favor of the debate statement: "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms."

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist whose work based on the Snowden leaks won a Pulitzer Prize last month and Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of social media website reddit, were in opposition.

The debate ended with 59 percent of the audience siding with Greenwald and Ohanian.

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Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor turned leaker and whistleblower,won't be able to travel to Germany to testify about NSA surveillance, according to a report from The Guardian.

Snowden asked for asylum in Germany last summer, but his application was rejected because hedidn't file it from German soil. Theoretically, a trip to Germany could have been a second chance to file an application.Butplans for the trip broke down, with sharpdisagreement among German political parties about the propriety of allowingSnowden into the country.

Unnamed government officials wrote a letter to theparliamentary committee that invited Snowden, sayingthatthe invitation would "run counter to the political interests of the Federal Republic" and "put a grave and permanent strain" on relations between the US and Germany.The letter was obtained and published by Sddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's largest newspaper.

The German Left and Green parties had insisted that Snowden's personal appearance and testimony was key, "not least because of concerns that Russia would otherwise influence his testimony," wroteThe Guardian. But the dominant Christian Democratic Union and Social Democratic parties said that Snowden didn't need to appear in person; his written answers would suffice.

Green Party leader Simone Peter said her party will continue to fight over the issue."Merkel is displaying cowardice towards our ally America," said Peter. "We owe the Americans nothing in this respect. The government must at least make a serious effort to safely bring Snowden to Germany and let him give evidence here."

Snowden has been living in Russia since he gave top-secret documents to journalists last year. His one-year visa will run out this summer, but his lawyerJesselyn Radack said she expects the visa to be renewed.

This article originally appeared on Ars Technica

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