This paper revisits the longstanding debate about journalism, academic scholarship, and their connections with the powerful forces of surveillance that shape the lives of contemporary democracies.

Finally, some Snowden documents on Australia A full four years after they were provided by Snowden to journalists, the first documents focused on Australia became available in August 2017 through a joint investigation by the ABC’s Peter Cronau and The Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher. While these documents were redacted by the journalists (Defence officials refused to…

On Saturday 28 January 2017, seventy peace people gathered at the annual protest at the Waihopai spy base run by the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) on behalf the US National Security Agency (NSA). Surrounded by vineyards, trees laden with fruit and mountains, this abomination is near Blenheim on New Zealand’s South Island. People…

In his new film Zero Days, Alex Gibney uses the Stuxnet weapon created by the US and Israel as a context and pretext to talk about cyber weapons, cyber war and call for cyber peace. A “zero day” is a technical term for a software bug. It that can be used to break into a…

A report by Desmond Ball, Bill Robinson, and Richard Tanter, ‘The Antennas of Pine Gap’, NAPSNet Special Report, was published on 22 February 2016. Download the report here Some photos in the report taken by me on 23 January 2016 are available in high resolution upon request.

How unique is Edward Snowden among national security whistleblowers? Is his new or old information about mass surveillance? Given the Five Eyes intelligence sharing arrangement has been in place for almost seventy years, Snowden’s evidence of its reach and power to impact political rights, democracy and technology echo previous revelations, defections and publications. Snowden revealed…