Dabei erinnerte Alvarado daran, dass Ecuador eines der sieben Länder Süd-, Mittel- und Nordamerikas ist, die „alle Dokumente zu den panamerikanischen Menschenrechtsmechanismen ratifiziert haben“, und rief Washington auf, wenigstens eines davon zu ratifizieren.

Angesichts mehrerer Tage offener Drohungen seitens der Obama-Administration und Senatoren, welche drohten, einen wichtigen Handelsvertrag mit Ecuador zu kündigen, falls das Land es wagte, Edward Snowden Asyl zu gewähren, teilte die Regierung von Ecuador den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika mit, was sie mit ihrem tiefgekühlten Brokkoli und den frisch geschnittenen Blumen machen kann und kündigte den Vertrag von sich aus.

On Thursday, Wired‘s Kevin Poulsen revealed Thordarson‘s double role as a close Assange protégé and a paid informant working for the United States government in its WikiLeaks investigation.

Für $5000 hat der Wikileaks verraten.

In the wake of the news that spies at GCHQ — the UK equivalent of the NSA — have been tapping into every fiber optic cable that comes into and goes out of the country, downloading and storing phone calls and Internet traffic for up to 30 days, you might think the British authorities have enough information at their disposal, without needing to turn to other sources. But it seems not, according to the latest revelations in The Guardian:

Top-secret draft report from 2009 by the NSA‘s inspector general shows development of ‚collection of bulk internet metadata‘ under program launched under Bush

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One of the greatest honors I‘ve had in my years of writing about politics is the opportunity to work with and befriend my long-time political hero, Daniel Ellsberg. I never quite understood why the Nixon administration, in response to his release of the Pentagon Papers, would want to break into the office of Ellsberg‘s psychoanalyst and steal his files.

Millionen an Informationen fluten täglich unser Gehirn. Die meisten davon werden bewusst kaum wahrgenommen und nur mit einer Art Überschrift ins Unterbewusstsein verstaut. Wenn eine Information beim Empfänger hängen bleiben soll, muss diese oft genug wiederholt werden. Manchmal reicht nur ein Wort. Durch die Wiederholung dieses Wortes wird dieses Teil unseres Bewusstseins, es wird zur Norm, gehört zum Alltag – ob wir wollen oder nicht.

„I‘m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker,“ Obama said, according to a tweet from the Washington Post‘s David Nakamura.

Back in March of this year, another BBC story noted that two other encrypted messaging services — Skype and WhatsApp — were also being told to make it possible for the authorities to eavesdrop on communications. In the wake of the Viber ban, there are now concerns that WhatsApp, Skype and the Tango messaging service may fall afoul of the Saudi authorities‘ desire to bring these new technologies under control.

Aggressive new anti-piracy legislation that allows for sites to be rapidly blocked by ISPs upon allegations of copyright infringement passed through its final two readings in Russia’s State Duma today.

Two weeks after Samaras’ decision to shutdown public broadcaster ERT and Greeks enjoy the view of multicolored test bars as the government considered the replacement of the black in TV screen with color bars as restoration of ERT frequencies.

When you find out your own government is harvesting your phone metadata and internet activity, what do you do? If you‘re Jeff Larson at ProPublica, you file a FOIA request in hopes of getting the NSA to cough up some of the info it‘s collected on you.