Edward Snowden

[LISBON] Technology has given internet giants "irresistible power" when they work in concert with governments, whistleblower Edward Snowden told the Web Summit that opened in Lisbon on Monday.

[WASHINGTON] Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor living in Russia after leaking information about the US government's mass surveillance programme, has said he would like to return home if he can get a fair trial.

[TORONTO, Canada] A woman who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed US global surveillance programmes arrived on Monday in Canada with her daughter, where they were granted asylum.

[HONG KONG] Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden hit back at the Hong Kong government Thursday for rejecting the protection bids of a group of refugees who sheltered him while he was hiding out in the city.

[WASHINGTON] The FBI has arrested a National Security Agency contractor on charges of stealing highly classified information and is investigating possible links to a recent leak of secret hacking tools used to break into the computers of adversaries such as Russia and China, US officials said on Wednesday.

[WASHINGTON] Edward Snowden was a "disgruntled employee" and not a "principled whistleblower," according to a report from Congress released Thursday, which comes amid mounting pressure for a presidential pardon.

[BRUSSELS] The European Union on Tuesday launched a controversial deal with the United States aimed at curbing government spying on European citizens' personal internet data.

WHEN reporter Jason Leopold, 45, gets ready to take on the United States government, he psychs himself up by listening to heavy metal bands Slayer and Pantera.

THE US House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to end the National Security Agency's (NSA) dragnet collection of telephone data from Americans, a controversial programme revealed in 2013 by former security contractor Edward Snowden.