Normalizes crypto/privacy tools; state vs. platform power becomes central.
Snowden disclosures ignite surveillance debate
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Greenwald, G. (2013). NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily. The Guardian. The first disclosure, first published 19:05 EDT on 5 June 2013. The live page now carries a later revision timestamp; the June 2013 capture records the original publication time.
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Greenwald, G. & MacAskill, E. (2013). NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others. The Guardian. First published 18:05 EDT on 6 June 2013; the live page shows a later revision date.
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Gellman, B. & Poitras, L. (2013). U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program. The Washington Post. The Washington Post's PRISM report of 6 June 2013, published the same day as The Guardian's. The live URL is behind a paywall to automated clients; the capture carries the full byline and date.
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United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Verizon telephone data: secret court order (FISC Secondary Order, docket BR 13-80). (2013). The primary document underlying the first story: bulk telephony-metadata order signed 25 April 2013 by Judge Roger Vinson, published in facsimile by The Guardian.
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June 5, 2013
Snowden disclosures ignite surveillance debate
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