Portside

"The telecommunications providers have been forced to set up an electronic interface for the authorities so that IP addresses can be retrieved.. These trends also exist in Europe."

Addressing many of the issues arising from last week's NSA stories

A history of ntergenerational poverty and racial segregation

NSA, Syria, Iran, Occupy, surveillance and more ...

The media’s lack of skepticism about White House claims

In my first substantive discussion with Edward Snowden, which took place via encrypted online chat, he told me he had only one fear -that the disclosures he was making, momentous though they were, would fail to trigger a worldwide debate because the public had already been taught to accept that they have no right to privacy in the digital age. Snowden, at least in that regard, can rest easy. The fallout from the Guardian's first week of revelations is intense.