The Global Surveillance Disclosure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_%282013%E2%80%93present%29?wprov=sfla1

The Third Party Doctrine - Covering the voluntary giving of user/meta data to telecoms and ISPs as to circumvent 4th Amendment coverage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

Signals Intelligence - What is Signit and what does it mean to you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signals_intelligence

NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–07) - Detailed run down of NSA warrantless surveillance operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001%E2%80%9307)

The NSA ANT Catalog - A list of known tools and technology used by the NSA, GCHQ, and others. IF YOU READ NO OTHER ARTICLE AT LEAST READ THIS, it is the most important for recognizing the scope that this and the capabilities that the public is working against.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog?wprov=sfla1

The UKUSA Agreement - also known as The Five Eyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement?wprov=sfla1

The MUSCULAR Surveillance Program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_%28surveillance_program%29?wprov=sfla1

KARMA POLICE - Surveillance and Database Collection Program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Police_%28surveillance_program%29?wprov=sfla1

TEMPORA - UK Bulk Data Collection Program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora?wprov=sfla1

PRISM - NSA Bulk Data Collection Program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29?wprov=sfla1

ECHELON - Part of the Five Eyes bulk data collection program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON?wprov=sfla1

MAINWAY - Global telecom database

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAINWAY

GCHQ Appendix - A list of known GCHQ operations via The Intercept

https://theintercept.com/gchq-appendix/

BT and Vodafone implicated in passing data to GCHQ via The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/02/telecoms-bt-vodafone-cables-gchq

Hepting v. AT&T - One of multiple attempts to fight the warrantless wiretapping of the NSA and complicity of AT&T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT%26T

AT&T Implicated in NSA collusion via NYT (far from the first time, AT&T is most likely then single largest source for bulk data collection as they are literally tapped directly into their fiber cables at the origin point).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html?_r=0

Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy - Pretty straight forward article form The Intercept explaining what you can do to keep yourself more secure.

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/edward-snowden-explains-how-to-reclaim-your-privacy/

The Fisa Court - For those wondering how this is "legal" in the first place this is how.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 - The basis for the FISA court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008

Global Surveillance - Wikipedia Series on Global Surveillance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance

Information on the Utah Data Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

2013 Department of Justice investigations of reporters - Article Detailing the DOJs's covert operations regarding collection of data on journalist as well as whistelblowers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_investigations_of_reporters

Recent relevations regarding NSA data center in NY hiding in plain site, via The Intercept; codenamed Titanpointe

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-plain-sight/

For something more sinister - The Heart of America's Drone War emanating out of Ramstein, Germany. Courtesy of The Intercept once more.

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/17/ramstein/

Room 614A - telecomunications interception operation via AT&T and the NSA. First outed in 2006 to sadly little fanfare in relation to what the operation entailed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

The Snowden Archives - The NSA Signals Intellligence Directorate's newsletter archives. A lot of very technical and often times difficult to understand information but very important to getting an idea of how the entireties of these projects work and the way in which those interntally view such things.

https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/

The 147 Companies Who Control Everything - Created by three system theorist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich this complicated and descrptive overview shows how the true control of coporations control almost everything radiating out from the middle. Both an article about such via Forbes and the PDF itself.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/22/the-147-companies-that-control-everything/#18c106eb7638

https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf

Who Controls 90% of the Media in America - An interesting infographic and article from Business Insider detailing how 6 companies control most of the information we receive.

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

As we sweat government surveillance, companies like Google collect our data - An eye opening article via The Guardian covering the collection of data via large corporations

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/18/corporations-google-should-not-sell-customer-data

The NSA Files - The Guardian Compilation of information obtained

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files

POPULAR SECURITY SOFTWARE CAME UNDER RELENTLESS NSA AND GCHQ ATTACKS - Article from The Intercept detailing governmental attack on Kapersky's

https://theintercept.com/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kaspersky/

U.K. PARLIAMENT APPROVES UNPRECEDENTED NEW HACKING AND SURVEILLANCE POWERS - The Intercept covering the UK's recent surveilence laws which have far reaching implications

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/22/ipbill-uk-surveillance-snowden-parliament-approved/