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First Thing: Millions under air quality alerts in US as Canada fire smoke drifts south

Eastern states including New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut issue alerts as hundreds of wildfires burn in Canada. Plus, will Trump’s once loyal deputy become his nemesis?

The Guardian - UK

‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile

But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today

The Guardian - UK

Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published

Ten years on, Nick Hopkins recalls how the Guardian defied the intelligence agencies to publish revelations of mass state surveillance

The Guardian - UK

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What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations?

The whistleblower forced US intelligence agencies to admit extensive spying on their own citizens. Some reforms were enacted but Snowden still faces potentially 30 years in prison

The Guardian - US

States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier

The historic leaks prompted legislation: yet governments are finding new ways to monitor citizens. The UK’s online safety bill is one of them, says investigative journalist Heather Brooke

The Guardian - UK

Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future

The abuses the Guardian helped him bring to worldwide attention go on: the authorities have merely made it harder to expose them

The Guardian - UK

A decade on, Edward Snowden remains in Russia, though U.S. laws have changed

A decade ago, we were still exploring the technological wonders of cellphones and other electronic devices. Few were thinking about how they could be used to monitor us. Then came Edward Snowden.

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European Union Fines Meta $1.3 Billion Because of NSA Spying Programs

The record penalty seems to be based less on the Facebook parent company's lax data practices than the U.S. intelligence community's data-collection programs.

Reason

The top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott

Lenore Taylor looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions

The Guardian - AU

Spying Abuses Are Still a Concern, 10 Years After Edward Snowden

Despite some headway in protecting privacy, the surveillance state hasn’t gone away.

Reason

Meta just copped a A$1.9bn fine for keeping EU data in the US. But why should users care where data are stored?

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has just been hit with an eye-watering €1.2 billion fine (about A$1.9 billion) for breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

The Conversation

TechScape: Warnings of a ‘splinternet’ were greatly exaggerated – until now

In this week’s newsletter: Facebook has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by EU regulators, and the cracks in the fault lines of data regulations are showing. Could that be a good thing?

The Guardian - UK

Facebook owner Meta fined £1billion for breach in user data rules

The record fine was levied after a three-year probe

Wales Online

Alleged military secret leaker Jack Teixeira ordered detained ahead of trial

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Air National Guard serviceman charged with leaking highly sensitive military secrets to an online forum dedicated largely to the gaming community has been ordered detained ahead of trial.

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Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Goldberg: Whistleblower or traitor? How to think about Jack Teixeira and the Pentagon leaks

The law is clear. If you mishandle, distribute or disclose classified information you can get in big trouble. In the worst cases, as with Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who has been accused of divulging top secret national security documents, you can be arrested, charged under the Espionage…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Discord leaks show the perils of over-classification

The arrest of a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard for allegedly leaking classified intelligence material is a startling twist in a case that has damaged relations with allies, exposed concerns about the war in Ukraine, and provided other countries with valuable information about the United States' spying…

The Guardian - US

From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers

The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks

The Guardian - UK

The Pentagon leaks reveal the rot at the heart of US intelligence – but they haven’t hurt Ukraine

This latest cache of secret documents is yet another own goal by a pathologically confused security service, says barrister Frank Ledwidge

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The Conversation

Yet another case of mishandling classified documents and alleged violations of the Espionage Act: 3 essential reads

The stunning arrest of 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira on charges of illegally sharing U.S. intelligence has once again renewed questions on the handling of classified documents.

The Guardian - US

‘A little kid trying to be important’: locals react to Pentagon leak suspect

A post-9/11 switch from ‘need-to-know’ to ‘need-to-share’ explains why a low-level guardsman had access to such sensitive material

Salon

What Daniel Ellsberg has taught us

The establishment has tried to sanitize Ellsberg. But his lessons on the madness of war are even more relevant now

WEKU

The latest saga of revealed U.S. secrets stirs memories of past legendary leaks

Call them whistleblowers or traitors, call their actions conscientious or unconscionable, the people who decide on their own to share classified material have often altered the course of events.

The Guardian - UK

Pentagon leak was decades in the making

Computer network was designed for use by much smaller number of people amid questions over amount of classified material on the system

ABC News

The Pentagon leak that landed on a chat forum about Minecraft exposes an unavoidable weakness in US national security

The leak of highly classified Pentagon documents has forced defence officials into the online worlds of gamers, meme lords and their leagues of followers, and exposed an unavoidable weakness in US national security.

The Independent UK

Pentagon leaks show difficulty of keeping secrets in a vast intelligence network

Britain issues more than 180,000 security clearances every year, as Kim Sengupta explains

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