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The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong

Ten years on, William Fitzgerald, then a 27-year-old policy worker, tells of his part in the story and explores how tech has changed sinceEarly on the morning of 10 June 2013, Hong Kong time, the journalist Glenn Greenwald and film-maker Laura Poitras published on the Guardian site a video revealing the identity of the NSA whistleblower behind one of...

Sun Jun 18, 2023 16:28
Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden

Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday granting Russian citizenship to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden.Snowden, 39, a former US intelligence contractor, has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the US after leaking secret files,...

Mon Sep 26, 2022 19:38
US entitled to $5.2m from Edward Snowden's book sales, court rules

Government sued Snowden over Permanent Record publicationUS alleges book in violation of agreements whistleblower signedThe United States is entitled to more than $5.2m from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s book royalties, a federal court ruled this week, according to the US Department of Justice. Related: NSA surveillance...

Thu Oct 1, 2020 23:55
NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on

Whistleblower revealed collection of phone records to GuardianCourt says officials who defended dragnet were not telling truthSeven years after the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US...

Thu Sep 3, 2020 17:51
Edward Snowden has taken $1.2m in speaking fees in exile, US filing says

US trying to strip whistleblower of profits earned since leaksGovernment says speaking fees cover 67 engagementsWhistleblower Edward Snowden has earned more than $1.2m in speaking fees since he leaked confidential US material to outlets including the Guardian and went into exile in Moscow, according to a filing by the US justice department in court...

Mon Aug 17, 2020 16:12
Speculation grows over pardon for Edward Snowden after Trump remarks

Trump: ‘A lot of people think he is not being treated fairly’Congressman calls for Trump to pardon NSA whistleblowerSpeculation is growing over whether Donald Trump might pardon Edward Snowden after the US president told an interviewer that the exiled former intelligence operative was “not being treated fairly”. Related: Edward Snowden on 9/11 and why...

Fri Aug 14, 2020 20:01

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