Viennaâs a fabled city for spying â and now its cloak-and-dagger legend has a 21st-century twist.
A stately villa in a leafy district of the Austrian capital is at the center of a ruckus over whether the NSA is snooping on the cityâs residents, with allegations flying that the building serves as a sophisticated a U.S. intelligence listening post.
In an important decision, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the government to review for release the court‘s opinions on the meaning, scope, and constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The ruling is on a motion filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the Nation‘s Capital, and Yale Law School‘s Media Freedom and Access Information Clinic. Section 215, which authorizes the government to obtain „any tangible things“ relevant to foreign-intelligence or terrorism investigations, is the claimed legal basis for the NSA‘s mass phone records collection program.
The Edward Snowden leaks may have helped the ACLU win a victory in Americaâs most secretive courtroom Friday.
Court cases before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court â the court that reviews requests by the NSA to wiretap suspected terroristsâ communications â are generally classified. But Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the government to review the courtâs opinions on the meaning, scope, and constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which authorizes the government to obtain âany tangible thingsâ relevant to foreign-intelligence or terrorism investigations.
The fight for these policies is being led by a diverse and bipartisan alliance of civil liberties and communications-rights organizations, including the ACLU, EFF, Free Press and Public Knowledge.
Weâre not alone. Millions joined the call for Net Neutrality in 2010; millions more stood up to defend the Internet against the PIPA and SOPA Web-censorship bills in 2012. The battle to protect usersâ privacy has engaged new audiences as we‘ve learned more about the extent of the NSA‘s mass surveillance.
As we‘ve noted before, Edward Snowden‘s revelations about the globe-spanning spying being conducted by the NSA are have all sorts of interesting knock-on consequences. Here‘s another: people are starting to worry about being tracked by online advertisers, and taking action to avoid it, as this story in Adweek explains:
Verbringe einen Tag im Landtag und verliere den Glauben an die parlamentarische Demokratie. So oder so Ă€hnlich lĂ€sst sich die gestrige Sitzung des Innenausschusses im ThĂŒringer Landtag zusammenfassen.
However, the joint announcement, on the third day of intensive talks in Geneva, also set the stage for one of the most challenging undertakings in the history of arms control
The task group left the port of Severomorsk and has already covered 2,000 nautical miles, crossing the Barents, Kara and Laptev seas.
Greeceâs civil service union, Adedy, said the perk stemmed from a decision in the 1990s to give employees 20 minutes off per day to protect them from eye damage from staring at a computer screen.
Since the July Egyptian coup, the Israelis have ignored the Nov 2012 ceasefire that was brokered by the previous Morsi Egyptian government. Thereâs been a sad litany of recent violations against Palestinian fishers:
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A French attempt to sneak language authorizing military action into the UN Security Council resolution on Syriaâs chemical weapons disarmament, a plan backed by US and British officials, has failed, and the US is resigned to the resolution moving forward without any military option built in.
Hours after Secretary of State John Kerry announced an agreement between the U.S. and Russia on the framework for handling Syria‘s chemical weapons, President Barack Obama said he welcomes the progress.
The death of a child — any child — is always painful and shocking
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Iranâs invitation to visit Tehran to work out a strategy for the Islamic regimeâs nuclear program, Fars News Agency reported Saturday. The West believes the Iranian program is a front for developing nuclear weapons.
The system â named Hydra, after the mythological many-headed sea-monster â would be deployed in international waters by the Navy for weeks or months, and would be a way to relieve âresource strain,â states DARPA program manager Scott Littlefield, as well as extend military capabilities.
Laut IstoĂ© ist die Basis in AscensiĂłn, einem winzigen britischen Ăberseeterritorium, Teil des „Echelon-Projektes“, an dem auĂer den USA auch die Regierungen GroĂbritanniens, Kanadas, Neuseelands und Australiens beteiligt waren.
„SolidaritĂ€t, gegenseitige UnterstĂŒtzung, Respekt und ein ebenbĂŒrtiger Umgang sind die Vorrausetzungen der Arbeit von Petrocaribe“, sagte Martelly dazu.
In einem Kommuniqué beschreiben die Bewohner von San José Nacahuil den Vorgang des Massakers.
HIER IST wieder ein jĂŒdischer Witz: Ein hungriger junger Jude sieht ein AnkĂŒndigungsplakat auĂerhalb eines lokalen Zirkus: Jeder, der auf die 50 Meter hohe Stange klettert und auf die Zeltplane unten springt, wird einen Preis von 1000 Rubeln gewinnen.
Jonathan Trappe, 39, lifted off at 6.20am EDT in heavy fog from Caribou, Maine, with the intention of making the 2,500 mile trip across the Atlantic to Europe.
Should he succeed, he would be the first ever person to cross the ocean by cluster ballooning. The journey is expected to take between three to five days, although the final destination could be anywhere.
No, the headline you did see was something like this: Canadian Household Debt-To-Income Ratio Hits Record High. Canadian Household Debt Climbs. Canadians Go Deeper Into Debt.
The protest on Cataloniaâs National Day by people dressed in yellow and waving the regional flag demonstrated the strength of an Independence movement that is demanding a Scottish-style referendum.
A poll claimed 52% of Catalans would vote to break away from Madrid and form a Catalan state.
It was carrying a telescope that is being billed by Jaxa as the world‘s first space telescope that will remotely observe planets including Venus, Mars and Jupiter from its Earth orbit.
Police in Mexico City have clashed with protesters during an operation to clear a square occupied by striking teachers.
Thousands demonstrate in Athens after supporters of neo-Nazi party leave nine seriously injured amid fears of civil war
The 8200 unit collects and analyses electronic data, including wiretapped telephone calls and emails. It is the largest unit in the IDF.
Israel has invested in intelligence assets in Syria for decades, according to a senior government official. „We have an historic intelligence effort in the field, for obvious reasons,“ he said.
Die syrische Opposition hat die heutige Vereinbarung Russlands und der USA ĂŒber eine Vernichtung der syrischen Chemiewaffen abgelehnt. âDiese Abmachungen gehen uns nichts anâ, sagte der Befehlshaber der Freien Syrischen Armee, Selim Idris.
Die beiden Minister betonten, dass der Syrien-Konflikt nur auf dem Verhandlungswege beigelegt werden könne. âWir haben entschieden, dass es keine militĂ€rische Lösung gibtâ, sagte Kerry. Ein UnterhĂ€ndlerteam mĂŒsse eingesetzt werden. Der russische Spitzendiplomat Lawrow Ă€uĂerte, die Umsetzung des russisch-amerikanischen Plans wĂŒrde ein militĂ€risches Szenario abwenden.
Die GesprĂ€che mit Kerry bezeichnete Lawrow als âexzellentâ. Mit dem Verhandlungsergebnis seien die vom russischen PrĂ€sidenten Wladimir Putin und von US-PrĂ€sident Barack Obama gesetzten Ziele erreicht worden.
By Pepe Escobar
While the whole world was terrified by the prospect of the Obama administration bombing Syria, Chinese President Xi Jinping was busy doing the Silk Road.
Wir sprechen mit Dr. Kamal Sido, Nahost-Experte der Gesellschaft fĂŒr bedrohte Völker und selbst kurdischer Syrer, ĂŒber die akutelle Lage in seinem Geburtsland. Wir wollen u. a. die politische Lage und
The US will drop its insistence that a UN resolution on Syria must be backed by military force, officials say, after strong objections from Russia.
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