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.