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- Hollywood and hyper-surveillance: the story of Gorgon Stare (2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01792-5 17 comments
- A Story of Surveillance (2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006.html 21 comments
- UFO Sighting, Pelacara Scare interview Pauti, Peru 2009 "The entire (village) was scared. Everybody with a shotgun. they have been on surveillance everyday.. Ive heard a lot of stories that.. bodies have been found with no head. (Neighbor) saw two(child) heads without eyes." Beings caught flying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJOWD0-1zfM 10 comments aliens
- A Good American (2015) - Tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. [01:40:19] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6KeImNEmgg 7 comments documentaries
- Wired story on school surveillance: one high school sent teens home with Chromebooks preloaded with monitoring software. Teens plugged their phones into laptops to charge them and texted normally. The monitoring software flagged for administrators when teens sent each other nudes. https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/ 233 comments privacy
- United States of Secrets (2014) - Frontline goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government’s massive and controversial secret surveillance program–and the lengths they went to trying to keep it hidden from the public. [01:53:17] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLXWUFgw4Hytw1PcZNXlitXhCdwnsrMVxr&v=kaUemcqIQ-k 109 comments documentaries
- Citizenfour (2014) - Story of Edward Snowden (American whistleblower behind the 2013 revelations of illegal and unethical global mass surveillance) and NSA spying scandal that shook USA and the world, and also led to Snowden seeking asylum in Russia. (Winner of 87th Academy Award) [1:48:39] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3uAAzQheRM 29 comments documentaries
- [Terrell] According to the police report, the incident took place at Drai's After Dark nightclub in the Cromwell Casino around the elevators. The victim has an orbital fracture on his right eye and other injuries that are described as minor. Surveillance video matches the victim's story https://twitter.com/Kat_Terrell/status/1490768172370300930?amp%3Bs=19&t=14adhaI9ajF43nbOJvF8zQ 209 comments nfl
- ‘Every message was copied to the police’: the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/11/inside-story-most-daring-surveillance-sting-in-history 3 comments worldnews
- Stories Of The Decade: Edward Snowden And Mass Surveillance https://www.npr.org/2019/12/14/787891267/stories-of-the-decade-edward-snowden-and-mass-surveillance 3 comments politics
- 'Most Important Surveillance Story You Will See for Years': Report Reveals How AT&T Buildings Serve as Secret Hubs for NSA Spying https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/25/most-important-surveillance-story-you-will-see-years-report-reveals-how-att 13 comments politics
- Peeing in trash cans, constant surveillance, and asthma attacks on the job: Amazon workers tell us their warehouse horror stories http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-share-their-horror-stories-2018-4 23 comments worldnews
- Trump: 'Big story' is unmasking, surveillance during Obama administration http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335880-trump-big-story-is-unmasking-surveillance-during-obama-administration 27 comments politics
- Fox News: New York Times boycotted Obama surveillance story. Fox News: Oops, maybe not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/05/30/fox-news-new-york-times-boycotted-obama-surveillance-story-fox-news-oops-maybe-not/?utm_term=.80ae4f24d1b5 143 comments politics
- 8 Trump-free stories of hacking and surveillance that most people missed in 2016 https://medium.com/@privacyint/trumputin-free-zone-8-stories-from-the-hacking-and-surveillance-around-the-world-you-may-have-6bbdd53c58a7#.ogas785sq 9 comments privacy
- New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the [100+] Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/new-film-tells-the-story-of-edward-snowden-here-are-the-surveillance-programs-he-helped-expose/ 5 comments privacy
- New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/new-film-tells-the-story-of-edward-snowden-here-are-the-surveillance-programs-he-helped-expose/ 10 comments politics
- Surveillance video partially discredit Lochte et al robbery story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3743679/ryan-lochte-seen-rushing-olympic-village-new-security-footage-just-robbed-gunpoint-5am-nightclub-party.html 9 comments worldnews
- How Buzzfeed used R for its Spies in the Skies story on federal surveillance aircraft http://buzzfeednews.github.io/2016-04-federal-surveillance-planes/analysis.html 14 comments rstats
- German prosecutors probe website for treason over spy story, the site published an article how Germany's domestic intelligence agency wanted additional funds to increase its online surveillance programs http://news.yahoo.com/german-prosecutors-probe-website-treason-over-spy-story-161333019.html 6 comments europe
- "Ladykiller," a story from "Watchlist," 32 stories about the surveillance state from an international coalition of sci-fi and literary fiction writers http://miraclejones.com/stories/ladykiller.html 3 comments books
- The United States of Secrets: PBS FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government's massive and controversial secret surveillance program in the NSA following 9/11 http://video.pbs.org/video/2365245528/ 5 comments politics
- The Washington Post & The Guardian win Pulitzer Prize for public service for a series of stories that exposed the National Security Agency’s massive global surveillance programs http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/washington-post-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-public-service-shared-with-guardian/2014/04/14/bc7c4cc6-c3fb-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html 3 comments worldnews
- Fill NSA servers with junk -- ScareMail adds unique "scary" stories to email signatures in order to disrupt NSA surveillance http://bengrosser.com/projects/scaremail/ 41 comments privacy
- [NSA claims] that anything that the news stories added to public debate about government surveillance was "outweighed by the road map they gave to our adversaries" about specific eavesdropping methods. http://news.yahoo.com/u-spy-agencies-hit-latest-snowden-revelations-154330564.html 3 comments politics
- White House Changing Its Story On James Clapper's Role In Independent Surveillance Review http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130813/13383924162/white-house-changing-its-story-james-clappers-role-independent-surveillance-review.shtml 6 comments politics
- Yes, The NSA Surveillance Story Shows Why Wikileaks And Similar Sites Are Necessary http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/23564623354/yes-nsa-surveillance-story-shows-why-wikileaks-similar-sites-are-necessary.shtml 6 comments technology
- Glenn Greenwald, journalist who broke NSA surveillance story: Constitutionality of NSA surveillance has never made it to court because the government won't let it http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/06/10/surveillance-national-security-and-the-constitution 62 comments politics
- The former CIA employee who leaked details about classified secret surveillance programs to the Guardian and the Washington Post revealed himself in a story published Sunday, saying that he has no apologies for his actions. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/edward-snowden-nsa-leaker-no-apologies-92462.html?hp=t1 5 comments politics
- I have been following the domestic surveillance situation for a while now. If you're looking for the full, unadulterated, non-conspiracy story of what's going on with the NSA right now, this Wired article gives us the full story, without sensationalism or conjecture. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ 5 comments politics
- Top Story on Foxnews.com: U.S. intelligence official: Fed’s surveillance foiled 2009 NYC terror plot, amid calls to curb programs http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/08/us-intelligence-official-feds-surveillance-foiled-200-nyc-terror-plot-amid/ 6 comments politics
- Roaming CIA hit squads make a good story, but ex-CIA officials point to a “somewhat less dramatic” possibility... the program involved domestic surveillance. http://www.theweek.com/article/index/98546/the_cia_dick_cheney_and_hit_men 4 comments politics
- Reporter who helped break the story on NSA's warrantless surveillance has been subpoenaed for refusing to give up a source http://rawstory.com/news/2007/times_reporter_subpoenaed_over_source_used_0201.html 7 comments politics