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June 24, 2013

US: One Step Removed From Full-Blown Fascism By Rob Urie

The history of recent decades has government spy agencies hiring ‘private’ companies to carry out the activities they are legally prohibited from carrying out. This makes government assertions regarding spying on citizens a game of three-card monte—the testimony of government officials is calculated to be irrelevant to actual activities. Continue reading

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June 24, 2013

Our man in Quito By Pepe Escobar

It takes a former CIA asset to beat US “intelligence” – more like intel deprivation. The story of Edward Snowden’s escape from Hong Kong is textbook. This correspondent, at dim sum on Sunday, was alerted by a source; “Get ready for something big; he’s leaving soon.” That was about 12:30 pm Hong Kong time. In… Continue reading

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June 24, 2013

The SINGLE Most Important Step to Protect Yourself from Government Spying

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the leading electronic privacy group – the Electronic Frontier Foundation – say that encryption helps to protect privacy. On the other hand, Tech Dirt points out that the NSA might consider you suspicious if you encrypt information, and so hold onto your data until they can decrypt it. Continue reading

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June 24, 2013

Democratic rights are at stake in fight to defend Edward Snowden By Barry Grey

There is something profoundly unsettling about seeing a young person fleeing a vindictive government for having exposed a massive political conspiracy against the democratic rights of the American people and the people of the world. Continue reading

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June 23, 2013

Video: ‘Snowden exposes criminals, criminals are going for him now’

Information that NSA leaker Edward Snowden is exposing can lead to trials against those involved in war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq or in money laundering and that is why “the West is so afraid,” investigative journalist Tony Gosling told RT. Continue reading

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June 23, 2013

Video: 'Russia safe for Snowden for now as it will not be pressured'

Russia is “a very safe place” for the NSA leaker Edward Snowden as it will not be pressured by the US, former MI5 agent Annie Machon told RT as the whistleblower arrived in Moscow reportedly en route to a third country. Continue reading

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June 23, 2013

“Intelligence,” Corporatism, and the Dance of Death By Arthur Silber

You may at first think the following is a bad joke, but I assure you it is not a joke at all. At the very end of this NYT story about Booz Allen and the complex interconnections between nominally “private” business and the national intelligence community, we read: But the legal warnings at the end… Continue reading

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June 20, 2013

You’ve Heard that the Government and Big Corporations Are Spying. But Do You Have ANY IDEA How Widespread the Spying Really Is?

You know that the government has been caught spying on the Verizon phone calls of tens of millions of Americans. The spying effort specifically targeted Americans living on U.S. soil. Continue reading

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June 17, 2013

Video: Long Before Helping Expose NSA Spying, Journalist Laura Poitras Faced Harassment from U.S. Agents

Journalist Laura Poitras is being described as the connection between the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the reporters for The Guardian and The Washington Post who published his leaked documents about government surveillance. Poitras shared a byline on two of the key articles about the ongoing NSA revelations, and filmed the Guardian interview in Hong… Continue reading

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June 13, 2013

Metadata” Can Tell the Government More About You Than the Content of Your Phonecalls

The government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content of the calls. But technology experts say that “metadata” can be more revealing than the content of your actual phone calls. Continue reading

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June 8, 2013

Google & Facebook Discussed Secret Systems for U.S. to Spy on Users By Pratap Chatterjee

Google and Facebook have discussed – and possibly built – special portals for the U.S. government to snoop on user data, according to revelations sparked by an investigative series of articles by Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian. Continue reading

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June 8, 2013

Video: Obama Defends “Big Brother” Powers

Larry Wilkerson: The NSA’s illegal gathering of almost all means of communication sacrifices privacy without improving national security Continue reading

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June 8, 2013

Video: Top NSA Official: Government Tapping CONTENT, Not Just Metadata … Using Bogus “Secret Interpretation” of Patriot Act

We reported in 2008 that foreign companies have had key roles scooping up Americans’ communications for the NSA. The newest information regarding the NSA domestic spying scandal raises an important question: If America’s tech giants didn’t ‘participate knowingly’ in the dragnet of electronic communication, how does the NSA get all of their data? Continue reading

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June 7, 2013

Iowa City moves to ban drones, traffic cameras and license plate readers

The residents of Iowa City, Iowa have moved to ban drones, red-light cameras and license plate readers in what is likely the most thorough action taken by a town yet against modern surveillance technologies. Continue reading

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June 7, 2013

High-Level American Intelligence Source: “We Hack Everyone Everywhere"

“We Like To Make A Distinction Between Us And The Others. But We Are In Almost Every Country In The World.” Continue reading

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June 7, 2013

High-Level American Intelligence Source: “We Hack Everyone Everywhere”

“We Like To Make A Distinction Between Us And The Others. But We Are In Almost Every Country In The World.” Continue reading

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June 7, 2013

Video: "A Massive Surveillance State": Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails

The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows… Continue reading

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June 7, 2013

Video: “A Massive Surveillance State”: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails

The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows… Continue reading

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June 7, 2013

NO2ID Newsletter (2nd Series) No. 9 – 6th June 2013

7 June 2013 — NO2ID Edited by Daryl Worthington ++ NEW THREAT TO MEDICAL PRIVACY by James Baker Continue reading

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June 7, 2013

Statewatch News Online, 7 June 2013

7 June 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 6-7 June 2013: Day 1: Justice: Press release2. EU: NEW DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: European Parliament: Working documents, draft report and amendments 3. UK: ANTI-SURVEILLANCE CAMPAIGNERS TO MARK ORWELL’S ‘1984 ‘PUBLICATION Continue reading

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