THE GUARDIAN — The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of ...

KENSINGTON, Calif. — Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg calls the revelations by a government contractor on U.S. secret surveillance programs the most "significant disclosure" in the nation's ...

Edward Snowden made a surprise appearance on the TED stage in Vancouver today, by Beam telepresence robot from "somewhere in Russia". Snowden, in his second remote talk in eight days after an ...

U.S. Ambassador James Costos was commanded to appear at the Spanish Foreign Ministry in Madrid on Oct. 28 as a public expression of Spain’s outrage. That outrage was sparked by the latest document ...

Students from around the country have penned a series of open letters against government surveillance on college campuses. The campaign is an effort by Student Net Alliance, a group that was formed ...

Edward Snowden's disclosures in 2013 shook the internet and technology sectors, which exposed the downsides of widespread monitoring and cast doubt on the idealistic notion of a linked society. Google ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who published documents leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, plans to make new revelations "within the ...

Call Edward Snowden what you will: traitor, hero or simply a naive young man. Maybe all three. At the South by Southwest Interactive conference Monday, he was both subject and object, clarifying some ...

For many of us, Edward Snowden is a hero, a whistleblower who could not be silent about a government abusing citizens’ rights, even in the name of a good cause like fighting terrorists — especially ...

Thirty days ago, the Guardian published the first details of the files leaked by Edward Snowden, revealing the bulk collection of data on phone calls by the National Security Agency. In the time since ...

Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about US surveillance programs, swore an oath of allegiance to Russia and has collected his Russian passport, his ...

Defenders of Edward Snowden's leaks got a bit trickier Wednesday afternoon, with revelations about his embarrassing past. Turns out, Snowden was once a teenager and, worse, that time period was ...