Articles by Julia Angwin

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Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
Julia Angwin | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2016

Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.

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NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’
Julia Angwin & Jeff Larson, ProPublica; Charlie Savage & James Risen, The New York Times; Henrik Moltke & Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Aug 2015

15 Aug 2015 – The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic has relied on a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. It has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks.

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New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying
Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Charlie Savage, Henrik Moltke - ProPublica & The New York Times, 8 Jun 2015

The Obama administration has stepped up the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program on U.S. soil to search for signs of hacking.

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Surveillance: The NSA Revelations All in One Chart
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson – ProPublica, 7 Jul 2014

June 30, 2014 – This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year according to whether they are bulk or targeted, and whether the targets of surveillance are foreign or domestic.

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