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Hartmann sagte, man befinde sich in einem gemeinsamen Sicherheitsbündnis und führe Verhandlungen über Freihandelsabkommen. Dadurch könne man Druck ausüben. US-Unternehmen, die nicht garantieren könnten, dass sie Daten deutscher Bürger nicht weitergeben, könnten zum Beispiel die Aufträge entzogen werden. Die USA müssten „so etwas wie tätige Reue“ zeigen.

Update: Wer nicht bis zum Ende gelesen hat, für den zitiere ich mal den letzten Satz:

Michael Hartmann sitzt seit 2002 im Bundestag, er ist auch Mitglied im Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremium.

Nur falls jemand Fragen hatte, wieso das parlamentarische Kontrollgremium so eine Lachnummer ist (das sind die, die die Geheimdienste „kontrollieren“ sollen). (…)

Update: Angeblich war dieser Hartmann „der engste Vertraute“ von Edathy.

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The Met argued its policy of not discussing undercover officers meant it could not defend itself.

But the five women involved said that position was simply a cover.

Es ging dabei um Undercover-Cops, die Tierschutz-Aktivistinnen überwachen sollten, und dann mit denen sexuelle Beziehungen bis hin zu einem gezeugten Kind geführt haben.

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As expected, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has now issued its analysis of the Section 702 surveillance done by the NSA (and, as revealed earlier this week, passed on to the FBI and CIA). You may recall that, back in January, the PCLOB issued a scathing report about the NSA‘s Section 215 bulk data collection efforts, calling the program both illegal and unconstitutional. In contrast, the report on the 702 program is much more muted — claiming that the program is constitutional, legal and effective as a counterterrorism tool. Like the previous report, this new one is highly readable — and I recommend reading it in its entirety. However, the legal analysis is disappointing compared to the earlier report.

Pakistan‘s parliament passed a law on Wednesday giving security forces sweeping powers to clamp down on militancy, but some activists and legislators criticized the provisions as too harsh.

Sicherheitshalber waren Journalisten gar nicht erst zugelassen zu diesem Gipfel.

Last week, we wrote about how the DOJ finally released (a heavily redacted) copy of its memo authorizing drone use for killing Americans (though, some have pointed out that the memo was written well after the US started trying to kill Americans with drones). More importantly, we noted that the memo actually pointed to another secret memo as part of the justification. It‘s secret memo on top of secret memo, all the way down. The ACLU went back to court to see about getting its hands on that other memo, and the court has now ordered the DOJ to cough up any such memos related to killing people with drones. Specifically, the judge has ordered the DOJ to provide:

und legen sich einfach eine neue „Interpretation“ der an sich eindeutigen Gesetzeslage zurecht.

Boschi is the public face of a controversial reform to turn the currently elected Senate into a leaner unelected assembly of local and regional government representatives with minimal lawmaking powers to make passing legislation easier and quicker.

The chemicals are to be loaded onto the Cape Ray later Wednesday and will be neutralized at sea.

This exhibit lists the 193 foreign governments as well as foreign factions, political organizations and other entities that were part of a 2010 certification approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. These are the entities about which the NSA may conduct surveillance, for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence. Each year a new certification must be approved by the court to permit such surveillance under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act.

Earlier this year, we wrote about the Senate‘s latest attempt at a cybersecurity bill, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which tries to distinguish itself from the toxic attempts to pass CISPA over the past few years. We and many others have already detailed how CISA, like the CISPAs before it, has a tremendous problem in creating perverse incentives for companies to help the government spy on people, but as a bunch of public interest groups are noting, the definitions are so broad, that the bill could actually be a backdoor way to undermine net neutrality. That‘s because it has an incredibly broad definition of a „cyberthreat“ such that an ISP could declare, say, Netflix to be a cyberthreat, allowing it to throttle Netflix‘s bandwidth. Here are two key paragraphs from a letter sent by CDT, EFF and a bunch of other groups:

As Techdirt discussed back in March, oversight of the UK‘s intelligence services is essentially one person, working part-time, one of whose techniques for establishing whether everything is being conducted according to the rules and the law is to take the word of the heads of the services that it is. The Right Honorable Sir Mark Waller — for it is him — has now issued his annual report on the UK‘s Intelligence Services (pdf). Despite Snowden‘s revelations of massively-intrusive spying on the entire UK population, and much of the world besides, Waller apparently doesn‘t feel that he needs to change the way he does things:

Russland behauptet, die USA erpressen Frankreich, um eine Lieferung von Mistral-Hubschrauberträgern zu verhindern. Wenn man daran denkt, dass die französische Bank BNP Baribas eine Milliardenstrafe wegen Geschäften mit von den USA sanktionierten Ländern bezahlen soll, scheint dies nicht weit hergeholt. Außerdem widmet sich das „Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence“ im US-Finanzministerium dem Kampf gegen andere Staaten.

Gerne wird Russland und anderen Staaten vorgeworfen, die Pressefreiheit einzuschränken, ohne dass im Einflussbereich von USA und NATO genauer hingesehen wird. Dass dafür wenig Bewusstsein besteht, liegt auch an den Medien, die sich dem Weißen Haus bedingungslos unterwerfen

Länger bei Backup

Bei den Backupsystemen werde es noch ein paar Tage länger dauern. Die Daten werden nach einem Industriestandard gelöscht. Am Montag hieß es seitens der Provider, dass die Umsetzung nicht so einfach sei. Bei A1, Drei und UPC werde derzeit darüber beraten.

The PCLOB report provides the public with much needed information about how the 702 program works. But the legal analysis is incorrect and the report fails to offer effective reforms. The government‘s collection and search of Americans‘ communications without a warrant or individually approved court order is barred by the Constitution and must be stopped. We look forward to continuing such arguments in Jewel v. NSA, our ongoing case against the NSA‘s mass spying programs.

The FBI and the CIA admit they spied on countless emails and phone calls of private U.S. citizens

Australia summoned the Israeli ambassador and warned that the countries’ friendly ties were at risk after Dubai police named three Australian passport-holders in a list of new suspects in the murder of Mahmud al-Mabhuh.