User:Troels.moller/sandbox

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: 

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.