Ryan Gallagher

Ryan Gallagher is a Scottish investigative journalist. He writes for The Intercept about security and civil liberties, reporting on classified documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.[1] He has previously worked for The Guardian, Slate, and the Financial Times.[2][3]

In August 2014, Gallagher revealed the existence of ICREACH, an NSA search engine that he alleged is "the largest system for internally sharing secret surveillance records in the United States." [4][5][6] In March 2014, with Glenn Greenwald, he revealed a joint NSA and British Government Communications Headquarters program to infect millions of computers with malware,[7] a report that prompted Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to personally call U.S. President Barack Obama to complain. [8][9][10]

In 2013, Gallagher was threatened by a private security contractor while working on a story exposing the use of facial recognition technology at the Statue of Liberty in New York.[11][12][13]

He is listed on the New America Foundation's website as a Future Tense Fellow under a program that seeks "to bring exceptionally promising new voices and ideas into the nation's public discourse." [14]

References

  1. "Ryan Gallagher - The Intercept - First Look Media". The Intercept. October 27, 2014.
  2. Gold, Hadas (March 3, 2013). "Gawker's John Cook to First Look". Politico.
  3. Beaujon, Andrew (February 6, 2014). "First Look adds more journalists, plans to launch first publication next week". Poynter.
  4. Gallagher, Ryan (Aug 25, 2014). "The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google". The Intercept.
  5. Winter, Michael (Aug 25, 2014). "NSA built 'Google-like' search engine to share data". USA Today.
  6. Pullam-Moore, Charles (Aug 25, 2014). "Google-like NSA search engine implemented to learn about civilians". PBS.
  7. Gallagher, Ryan; Greenwald, Glenn (March 12, 2014). "How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware". The Intercept. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  8. Holpuch, Amanda (March 13, 2014). "Mark Zuckerberg: US government surveillance is a threat to the internet". The Guardian.
  9. Byers, Alex (March 13, 2014). "Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama after NSA report". Politico.
  10. Pagliery, Jose (March 14, 2014). "Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA". CNN.
  11. Pinto, Nick (May 1, 2013). "Will There Be Face-Recognition Surveillance at the Statue of Liberty?". Village Voice.
  12. Doctorow, Cory (April 30, 2013). "Rumored Statue of Liberty face-recognition supplier harasses and threatens journalist". Boing Boing.
  13. Cushing, Tim (April 30, 2013). "Private Security Contractors Try To Shut Down Journalist Using Legal Threats And Claims Of Harassment". Techdirt.
  14. "New America Fellows". New America Foundation. October 27, 2014.
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