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Democracy Now! is an independent, daily global news hour anchored by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We air live weekdays 8-9AM ET and rebroadcast throughout the day on nearly 1,400 TV & radio stations in 43 countries. Here we post excerpts from our interviews and key moments from our daily show.
Meet the whistleblower who exposed the secret room AT&T used to help the NSA spy on the Internet.
As documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden expose how AT&T aided the NSA’s vast spying operations, Democracy Now! speaks to former AT&T technician Mark Klein, who worked at the company for 22 years. In 2006, he blew the whistle on AT&T’s cooperation with the National Security Agency by leaking internal documents that revealed the company had set up a secret room in its San Francisco office to give the NSA access to its fiber-optic Internet cables.
Watch the full interview at democracynow.org.
As the fight over the $40 billion ride-sharing service Uber is about to climax in New York City with a pending vote to cap temporarily the company’s rapid expansion, Democracy Now! co-host Juan González says Uber will use “any means necessary” to crush attempts to regulate its practices. Hear his take on Democracy Now! today.
It’s extraordinary that free governments are demanding that security be weakened because the government might want to have access. This is the kind of thing we see out of Russia and China and Syria.
Bruce Schneier, leading security technologist. Schneier spoke to Democracy Now! about FBI and GCHQ efforts to secure access to encrypted communications to track criminals and terrorists. Watch the discussion at democracynow.org.
The death toll from Tuesday’s Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia is now at eight and is expected to rise. National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said the accident would have been preventable if Amtrak had installed positive train control technology on that section of track. Just hours after the crash, the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee rejected a Democratic amendment to offer $825 million to speed up positive train control implementation. Watch our report on Democracy Now! today.
Every time you pick up the phone, the NSA has a record of who you called, how long you spoke to them and at what time you called. That is an immense amount of information.
Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU. Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today.
The courts have been crystal clear on this matter. You have a right, under the First Amendment of the Constitution, to take photographs or video of anything in public. … the police certainly don’t have the right to look at your camera or seize your phone without a warrant.
Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union. Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today.
This is an unprecedented window into how espionage is conducted.
Clayton Swisher, director of investigative journalism at Al Jazeera, speaks with Democracy Now! about several reports published by Al Jazeera based on leaked spy cables involving the world’s top intelligence agencies.
GCHQ has really acquired a huge amount of information that will make bulk surveillance of telephone communications very, very easy.
Chris Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, joins Democracy Now! to discuss a new report by The Intercept on how the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, hacked into the network of the world’s largest SIM card manufacturer to steal encryption keys that protect the privacy of cellphone users. Watch the interview here.
Women are being driven offline. This isn’t just in gaming, this is happening across the board online — especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.
Anita Sarkeesian, a prominent feminist pop culture critic, in an interview on Democracy Now! about widespread misogyny, sexism and violence against women in video games.