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The New Snowden Movie Is The Best PR He’ll Ever Get
Ben Wizner, lawyer for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was pleased when he saw the upcoming movie about his client eight months ago. “This is a dramatisation,” Wizner told Gizmodo. “Having said that, it tells a true story.”
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Oliver Stone Warns That Pokemon GO Could Lead To Totalitarianism
Director Oliver Stone shook his fist at all those darned Pokemon GO players today, calling the game “a new level of invasion” and warning that it could lead us down a slippery slope to totalitarianism.
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Eclair Bandersnatch: Street Artist For The Snowden Age
Walk pretty much anywhere in San Francisco’s SoMa, Haight or Mission neighbourhoods, and you’ll see one of Eclair Bandersnatch’s glittery stencils, often featuring “Saint Snowden” or Chelsea Manning. We talked to Bandersnatch about bringing art, tech and politics together on the streets.
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NSA Planned To Sneak-Attack App Stores To Put Spyware On Smartphones
Another day, another cynicism-inducing reminder that the NSA hasn’t just been unlawfully dragnet spying on our digital lives — it has also rigged up new and complicated techniques to do so, like hijacking app stores to put spyware on smartphones.