The Washington Post and The Guardian recently won The Pulitzer Prize for public service for their groundbreaking reports about the massive surveillance efforts of the US government based on Edward Snowden's throve of classified documents, CBS News reports.
In an interview with Vanity Fair. former government contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden insisted that he did file formal complaints with his ex-employer about the agency's surveillance programs, directly contradicting an earlier statement by NSA deputy director Rick Ledgett.
The European Court of Justice said in a statement following its ruling regarding the European Union's 2006 data retention law that the current statute violates the citizens' rights to privacy.
Judge Reggie Walton of the the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said that there is no reason for the need to extend the storage time of classified telephone surveillance data of the National Security Agency as fears of getting litigated by civilian plaintiffs have driven the government to make the request and not for security reasons.
