The Guardian: More than 500 of the world's leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed by a new international charter.
The signatories, who come from 81 different countries and include Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Orhan Pamuk, Günter Grass and Arundhati Roy, say the capacity of intelligence agencies to spy on millions of people's digital communications is turning everyone into potential suspects, with worrying implications for the way societies work.
Online advertisements have become so dangerous that even the U.S. Intelligence Community blocks them.
From documents obtained by the ACLU, it turns out that the NSA illegally collected call records after it promised to stop collecting them.
In an exclusive interview with chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge, the new head of NSA cybersecurity discusses evolving threats.
