The launch of Code Red - taking the global anti-surveillance movement to the next level. In late 2014, a group of the world's most renowned privacy activists, whistleblowers, technologists and le...
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Annie Machon
whistleblower
Annie Machon was an intelligence officer for the UK's MI5 in the 1990s, before leaving to help blow the whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spy agencies. She is now a writer, media commentator, political campaigner, and international public speaker on a variety of related issues: the war on terrorism, the war on whistleblowers, the war on drugs, and the war on the internet. She is also the European director of LEAP and a founding board member of Code Red.
Annie has an MA (Hons) Classics from Cambridge University. She is the author of Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5 and the David Shayler Affair (2005).
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18 april 2015
Manning and the others: traitors, spies or heroes? Media reporting and whistleblowing
May 2015 will mark the fifth anniversary of Chelsea Manning’s arrest. Manning is the US soldier who became the source of some of the biggest leaks WikiLeaks published in 2010. Thanks to Manning’...
The history and the impact of the scoop that earned the Pulitzer Prize for The Guardian and The Washington Post for "public service" rendered to the world. What in Italy is known as Datagate is not me...