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Article name: List of media reports of Snowden disclosures

Sources for building this list

• 2013 mass surveillance disclosures
• Subreddit /r/nsaleaks (see the sticky post)
• Al Jazeera Timeline of Edward Snowden's revelations
• ...please add more

Note regaring the dates

The dates of the media reports vary, depending on where you look. Often the dates on the various timelines are different from the date displayed in the article at the media outlet web site. This may be due to the fact that the media outlet have changed something afterwards, and updated the date to reflect this. In this list we should strive to get the actual date from when the first edition of the story was published. (Good tools are Google Cache and Wayback Machine, as well as the editing history on relevant wikipedia articles, of course. Also looking at the URL of the article at the media outlet, example Boundless Informant at The Guardian website - june 11, or june 8?)

What should be included?

The ambition with this list is to enable the reader to get a chronological overview of the leaks, to be able to discern quickly what facts where disclosed about the NSA/GCHQ etc. and their methods. Therefore, stories like Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, where Snowdens identity is revealed, are not included. Also omitted: [1]

What is highlighted in bold?

To make it easier to skim down the list, I have chosen to highlight in bold the name of the acting part (US/NSA, UK/GCHQ or other) and names of countries if any.

The List

Date	Headline	Summary	Published by	Leaked documents	Wikipedia article(s)
June 5, 2013	NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily	Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama	The Guardian	Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order	MAINWAY
June 6, 2013	NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others	Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007	The Guardian	PRISM (surveillance program)#The_Slides	PRISM (surveillance program)
June 7, 2013	Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks	Top-secret directive steps up offensive cyber capabilities to 'advance US objectives around the world'	The Gaurdian	Presidential Policy Directive 20	Presidential Policy Directive 20
June 8, 2013	Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data	The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing global surveillance data – including figures on US collection	The Guardian	Boundless Informant#Media related to Boundless Informant	Boundless Informant
June 13, 2013	US government has been hacking Hong Kong and China for years	The NSA has been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland (China) since 2009	South China Morning Post
June 16, 2013	GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits	Phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009	The Guardian	GCHQ surveillance documents
June 16, 2013	How GCHQ stepped up spying on South African foreign ministry	UK hoped to find out everything it could about negotiating position of Thabo Mbeki's government	The Guardian
June 16, 2013	UK intelligence agencies planned to spy on Commonwealth summit delegates	Top-secret document, prepared by GCHQ, contained proposals to target Commonwealth allies at heads of government summit	The Guardian	GCHQ surveillance documents
June 16, 2013	G20 summit: NSA targeted Russian president Medvedev in London	Leaked documents reveal Russian president was spied on during visit, as questions are raised over use of US base in Britain	The Guardian	GCHQ surveillance documents
June 20, 2013	The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant	Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication	The Guardian	Procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons: Exhibit A – full document Procedures used by NSA to minimize data collection from US persons: Exhibit B – full document Fisa court warrant authorising NSA surveillance procedures – full document	FISA, FISA Court
June 20, 2013	Headline	Summary	Publishedby	Leakeddocuments	RelevantWikipediaarticles
June 27, 2013	How the NSA is still harvesting your online data	Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating 'one trillion records processed'	The Guardian	Justice Department and NSA memos proposing broader powers for NSA to collect data NSA inspector general report on email and internet data collection under Stellar Wind – full document	Stellar Wind
June 27, 2013	NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama	Secret program launched by Bush continued 'until 2011'. Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days. Current NSA programs still mine US internet metadata	The Guardian	Justice Department and NSA memos proposing broader powers for NSA to collect data NSA inspector general report on email and internet data collection under Stellar Wind – full document	FISA, FISA Court
October 20, 2013	Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email	The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president's public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system	Spiegel Online	Excerpts from NSA report