We have met the enemy and he is – us? With each new revelation about the domestic surveillance efforts of the National Security Agency, it’s becoming clear to many Americans that the data thieves they have to worry about aren’t terrorists half a world away – but their...
Margaret Sullivan, the public editor of the New York Times, wrote a lengthy open letter to readers expounding on a rule a past Washington bureau chief, Phillip Taubman, taught her: “Always err on the side of publishing.” And that rule is paramount in...
Internet privacy may be a myth in the 21st century. Just look at the news cycle for the past several months: it has been dominated by the classified documents that Edward Snowden leaked from the National Security Agency. The documents show that the United States...
Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, Germany’s top security official, is interested in speaking with NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, about alleged surveillance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone. The possibility that the U.S. has been listening in on...
