Die Israelis drückten Besorgnis darüber aus, dass Wut über den Ausbau der Siedlungen und fehlenden Fortschritt im Friedensprozess, sowie die schlechte Behandlung von palästinensischen Gefangenen in israelischer Militärgefangenschaft zu einer neuen Intifada führen könnten.

Die Meldungen sind erschreckend: 2.000 Anschlagsopfer in nur zwei Monaten. Der Irak sei „kurz davor zu explodieren“, ein Höhepunkt der Gewaltwelle wäre erreicht. Die USA haben einen Scherbenhaufen hinterlassen. Derweil sprudelt dort das Öl wie nie zuvor. Doch zum Ärger der Invasoren profitiert davon hauptsächlich China.

Mehrmals wurde ich von den Einheimischen gefragt, ob es eine Bedeutung hätte warum die Bilderberger sich in England getroffen haben. Ich sagte zu ihnen, ganz sicher, denn wie die Erfahrung zeigt, passiert mit dem Land danach etwas schlimmes und sie können sich darauf gefasst machen.

The tenfold increase drew little public attention because the number of NSLs issued by the bureau was much higher – 15,229 in 2012. But as the example of Verizon showed, a Section 215 request may be used to obtain a broad array of records involving millions of people.

Even in the wake of recent revelations about the NSA, the administration has simply said Obama “welcomes” the debate.

In addition to Section 215, other provisions expanded the FBI’s power to issue so-called “national security letters,” requiring individuals and business to turn over a more limited set of records without any court order at all.

Die Mitarbeiter des Fernsehsenders ERT nutzen das Internet und den Privatkanal 902 der Kommunistischen Partei zur Übertragung einer Diskussion über das Aus für den Sender.

It was made clear to me that the original intent of government was to gain access to all the information it could without regard for constitutional safeguards. „You don‘t understand,“ I was told. „We just need the data.“

In the first week of October 2001, President Bush had signed an extraordinary order authorizing blanket dragnet electronic surveillance: Stellar Wind was a highly secret program that, without warrant or any approval from the Fisa court, gave the NSA access to all phone records from the major telephone companies, including US-to-US calls.

Polish prosecutors have extended until early October the five-year-old criminal investigation…

If that were confirmed, it would certainly change the debate somewhat. The standard justification that massive surveillance is indispensable in the fight against terrorism if lives are to be saved, would be replaced by the rather weaker one that it‘s rather handy being able to spy on Germany since its industrial secrets can be pilfered. It will be interesting to see whether any future revelations about the NSA‘s activities shed more light on this area.

Let us help Greek journalists inform Greek people all over the world!
Let us help Greek people remain properly informed!

Italy is position 69 in the freedom of information classification according to the 2013 report from Freedom House. A country deemed to be partially free. Among the countries ahead of us there are Ghana, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Namibia and Guyana.

By law, CSEC mandate includes: acquiring and using “information from the global information infrastructure for the purpose of providing foreign intelligence” and providing “technical and operational assistance to federal law enforcement and security agencies in the performance of their lawful duties.”

In other words, it spies.

The federal privacy watchdog says she will look into any implications for Canada posed by possible U.S. government snooping on a wide scale.

As the NSA spying scandal lumbers along, or as some reports suggest, begins, reports of American apathy have already rolled in. Of course, those supposed indifferent shrugs tend to amount more to how the questions are being asked than actual viewpoints.

„Denn ein Imperium erfordert immer gewisse Elemente nicht nur in der Außen-, sondern auch in der Innenpolitik. Ein Imperium kann es sich nicht leisten, Schwäche an den Tag zu legen. Aber jegliches Streben, Vereinbarungen auf Paritätsgrundlage zu erzielen, wird im Land selbst als Ausdruck der Schwäche empfunden, was die Landesführung aus politischen Erwägungen heraus nicht zulassen kann.“

„Griechenland kann stolz auf sich sein.“

Since Monday morning, he has gone underground. (..)

It is thought he is now in a safe house.

Two days after he checked out of a Hong Kong hotel where he told the Guardian newspaper that he had „no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,“ Edward Snowden was nowhere to be found Wednesday, despite being the central figure in the biggest news story in the world.

Charged with overseeing the NSA‘s domestic surveillance programs, the FISA court wears out its rubber stamp.

We‘ve discussed in great detail how the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, lied to Congress concerning NSA surveillance and why he should face the consequences of such lies. What hasn‘t been noted as much is that NSA boss Keith Alexander more or less told the same lies to Congress a few months earlier, in a letter responding to some of Senator Wyden‘s questions.

Nicht nur hat der Geheimdienst Zugriff auf PRISM, sie haben auch Agenten in den großen Firmen installiert, und wenn eine Firma Daten nicht freiwillig rausrückt, dann rufen sie halt den Agenten an und der schiebt ihnen das dann zu.

Das wird die gute deutsche Abhörtradition sein, aber weil der BND kein Mandat für Inlandsspionage gegen unbescholtene Bürger hat, muss er das halt über Bande machen.

Technology companies want government‘s permission to give public a more detailed list of demands for data from their servers

Und als der dann mal Thailand-Urlaub gemacht hat, haben sie Pädophilie-Gerüchte über ihn zusammengetragen.

The measure, coming amid daily revelations about the extent to which the National Security Agency is monitoring communications by Americans, would require the Attorney General to declassify significant Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinions.

(10.06.) The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the Nation‘s Capital, and Yale Law School‘s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed a motion today with the secret court that oversees government surveillance in national security cases, requesting that it publish its opinions on the meaning, scope, and constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. That section, which authorizes the government to obtain „any tangible thing“ relevant to foreign-intelligence or terrorism investigations, was the legal basis for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order revealed last week by The Guardian requiring Verizon to turn over months‘ worth of phone-call data.

(11.06.) This morning we sent the following letter to the offices of the Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read the full text below

On the heels of revelations that the United States is surveilling citizens‘ phone calls and scouring foreigners‘ Internet records, Italy‘s privacy watchdog told the parliament Tuesday that its citizens‘ privacy was also at risk.

Here‘s the question asked by Pew Research:

„As you may know, it has been reported that the National Security Agency has been getting secret court orders to track telephone call records of MILLIONS of Americans in an effort to investigate terrorism. Would you consider this access to telephone call records an acceptable or unacceptable way for the federal government to investigate terrorism?“

Here‘s Rasmussen‘s version:

„The federal government has been secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Americans for national security purposes regardless of whether there is any suspicion of wrongdoing. Do you favor or oppose the government’s secret collecting of these phone records?“

Actually, I think it teaches the exact opposite. It teaches everyone that the US does keep secrets — massive, privacy-destroying secrets that certainly appear to be in conflict with the basic principles of the 4th Amendment.