Two national security law experts explain how the Espionage Act isn’t only about international intrigue, and share other important points about the law that was invoked in a search of Trump’s estate.
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The new charges are much more serious than the computer misuse charge in the initial US extradition request. Will the Australian government intervene?
The US indicted WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange for conspiring to hack into a government computer. But the prosecution of Assange may also pose a risk to the rights of journalists in the US.
The Wikileaks founder has been removed from the Ecuadorean embassy after nearly seven years.
Chelsea Manning’s disclosures on the Iraq war were major milestones in the emergence of the digital age whistleblower.
National interest trumps open approach to US security policy.
Acts of rape and sexual slavery committed by members of a Congolese armed group against other members are war crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
Government agencies and contractors are now less trusting of their workers, and keeping a much closer eye on them, both on and off the job.
Crucially, President Obama has commuted Manning’s sentence without pardoning her.
The announcement of Chelsea Manning’s commutation raises questions regarding the future of other high-profile leakers, like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
The rise of leaktivism: specialised platforms and organisations that turn data into a weapon to strike at government and corporate power.
If the Ashley Madison hack was an inside job, then it shows that even strong protection against outside attacks isn’t necessarily enough to prevent a leak of private data.
The statute of limitations is expiring on some of the charges against the Wikileaks founder – but not all of them.
When political activists are treated like terrorists who plot and kill, state power is misdirected.
Four decades on, in a digital era of surveillance and data storage, Watergate remains a useful yardstick for assessing the value of source confidentiality.
If confidential sources can still be exposed by the government’s new data retention legislation, why risk leaking anything to the media?
Yesterday, the Courier-Mail put the gruesome murder of Indonesian transwoman Mayang Prasetyo, killed by her partner Marcus Volker, on its front page. The article is breathtaking in its prurience and voyeurism…
Digital mass surveillance is having a chilling effect on US democracy, affecting journalists and lawyers, a report from human rights organisations has warned. The report, by Human Rights Watch and the…
Jill Singer: You’ve come here fresh from being British Labour’s campaign coordinator, which you’re not doing now. We won’t get into all the argy-bargy about that. But I wonder, coming from that perspective…
Bradley Manning, the whistleblower behind the biggest leak of military secrets in history, has been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment. Convicted for six offences under the Espionage Act, he will have…
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of International and Criminal Law, University of Birmingham
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Media Specialist, Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia
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Senior lecturer, University of Twente
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Journalism, RMIT University
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Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of Kent
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