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Ryan Gallagher reports on surveillance, national security and privacy for Slate Magazine:
By providing a large trove of firsthand documents, Snowden changed the game completely. Anyone positing the existence of the dragnet spying programs – or trying to challenge them in court – could no longer be accused of speculating hypothetically or be dismissed as a paranoid lunatic.
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But the backlash is in many ways just starting to gather momentum. Six months on from the first Snowden scoop, only now are we beginning to see the first substantive signs of emerging legal and policy shifts. Moreover, despite the crude attempts of some government officials to suppress the reporting on the secret files, important new stories are going to continue flowing. And I say that with a high degree of certainty because, in recent weeks, I have had a chance to review the cache of leaked documents while working on investigations with the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, whom Snowden entrusted with the material earlier this year.So expect more revelations – and with them more court rulings, committee hearings, controversies, and reforms.
This has certainly been the Year of Snowden, but you can bet that the whistleblower is going to own a significant chunk of 2014, too.
— Snowden revelations only the beginning, The Age, December 30, 2013
The National Security Agency scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden has cost American technology companies billions of dollars in lost revenue as governments and companies in its important export markets of Asia refuse to entrust the handling of sensitive data to US companies. An analysis of financial filings from technology giants IBM and Cisco by The Independent on Sunday reveals the two businesses have seen sales slump by more than $1.7bn (£1.03bn) year-on-year in the important Asia-Pacific region since Mr Snowden revealed in June that US companies had been compromised by the NSA’s intelligence-gathering in the clandestine Prism programme.
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A survey by the Cloud Security Alliance, an industry standards organisation in the US, predicted the Prism programme could cost cloud computing firms between $35bn and $45bn in lost orders over the next three years. It said that Canada, Germany, France and other European countries have rules requiring companies to guarantee data privacy.— IT firms lose billions after NSA scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Independent, December 29, 2013
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“Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand”
— Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child
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for having the balls to still have this page up on their site…
“Shame? We don’t need no stinkin’ shame round here…”
http://www.nsa.gov/kids/home.shtml