DEA sued over “suspicionless” mass surveillance of Americans’ phone records

Human Rights Watch and EFF are suiing the drug agency, along with the FBI, DOJ and the USA itself, to make sure they torch the bulk surveillance program and purge its mountain of records.

Wikimedia joins forces with others to sue NSA, DOJ over mass surveillance

The ACLU has filed a suit on behalf of rights groups against the NSA’s spying program – in particular, its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications, commonly referred to as upstream surveillance.

How the “Great SIM Heist” could have been avoided

Apparently, intelligence services managed to penetrate the network of a major SIM card manufacturer, grab loads of SIM keys, and now we’re all liable to be listened in on. But why? What is it about SIM cards that made this possible?

Snowden, one year on, and it’s still not 1984

It’s a year since Snowden lifted the lid on PRISM and everything that followed. We’ve spent a year looking for Big Brother while we uploaded more of our lives into the care of giant media corporations and pointed an ever increasing battery of cameras at each other.

Monday review – the hot 21 stories of the week

It’s weekly roundup time! Here’s all the great stuff we’ve written in the past seven days.