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UK can look at Greenwald partner’s seized electronic documents
British authorities can sift through electronic documents seized from journalist Glenn Greenwald’s Brazilian partner, in the interests of “national security”, a court ruled on Thursday. The “highly sensitive” material could risk lives, said UK police. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks posts 400 gigabytes of encrypted ‘insurance’ data online
WikiLeaks has released a trove of encrypted “insurance” data on Twitter and Facebook. The data can’t be read without an encryption key, but the movement’s supporters say that could be published later in case anything happens to leading WikiLeaks figures. Continue reading
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NO2ID Newsletter (2nd Series) No. 10 – 2nd August 2013
16 August 2013 — NO2ID Edited by Daryl Worthington and James Baker ++’NOTHING TO HIDE’ CLAIM A NONSENSE OVER SNOWDEN REVELATIONS++ By James Baker Continue reading
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NSA: The Secret History of the U-2
US Spy Planes Targeted China to Help India; Used British Crews to “Confuse the Soviets” and Overflew French Nuclear Sites Continue reading
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Obama Appoints Fox to Investigate Spying In the Henhouse
Today, Obama appointed James Clapper to head the “independent group” of “outside experts”. Clapper is the same guy who lied to Congress about spying … falsely claiming that the government wasn’t spying on the American people. He subsequently apologized to Congress for lying. Continue reading
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9/11 Commission Chairs: NSA Spying Is “Out of Control”
The NSA’s metadata program was put into place with virtually no public debate, a worrisome precedent made worse by erecting unnecessary barriers to public understanding via denials and misleading statements from senior administration officials. Continue reading
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Amid Calls for ‘Less Democracy,’ German Security Agencies Caught Planting Spyware on Private Computers
Revelations by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) that German secret state agencies are installing spyware on personal computers capable of transforming a PC’s webcam and microphone into a listening device, sparked outrage across the political spectrum. Continue reading
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Edward Snowden Has Awakened the Sleeping Giant By Vincent L. Guarisco
There’s no denying Mr. Orwell was a visionary before his time. However, if George was with us today, he would surely cringe (even in darkness) and blush three shades of red if he knew about today’s night-vision technology. The following information should send goose bumps rippling across your skin. It did for me. This essay… Continue reading
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NSA reading content of Americans’ international communications By Thomas Gaist
Thursday saw yet another revelation in the ongoing exposure of a cluster of unconstitutional surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other agencies of the US government. In a front page article, the New York Times revealed that vast quantities of emails sent and received by Americans communicating with people abroad are… Continue reading
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Obama Tantrum and US Global Terror Alert Belie Washington’s Inner Panic over Russia and Snowden By Finian Cunningham
After weeks of threatening to cancel the G20 one-to-one meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, the White House has finally gone into full temper tantrum mode. The day after US President Barack Obama appeared on a TV chat show earlier this week complaining about Putin “slipping into Cold War mentality”, the White House announced that… Continue reading
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NSA Defenders Take to the Airwaves By Peter Hart
The vague-yet-apparently-very-serious intelligence about a possible Al-Qaeda attack became a big issue on the Sunday chat shows–and a chance for supporters of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs to claim that the agency’s controversial tactics are working. Continue reading
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US officials cite deadly drone strike in Yemen to defend NSA spying operations By Thomas Gaist
US drones launched missiles at vehicles carrying four men, alleged to be members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen’s Marib province early Tuesday. The attack was the latest development in the global terror alert announced by the Obama administration last Friday. On Monday, the administration indicated that the alleged terror plot was… Continue reading
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War on Terror: Crying Wolf, Wolf, Wolf
After weeks under heavy pressure for limitless spying on people everywhere the U.S. intelligence services conveniently detect a “threat” of some undefined future attacks. The “detection”, we are of course told, was only possible because of limitless spying on people everywhere Continue reading
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One Day After Russian Asylum for Snowden: Obama Administration Launches Terror Scare By Thomas Gaist
Amid escalating denunciations and threats against both Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) contractor-turned whistle-blower, and Russia, which granted Snowden temporary asylum on Thursday, the Obama administration on Friday issued a “global travel alert,” closing US embassies in Tripoli, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Baghdad, Riyadh and Doha based on supposed threats of Al Qaeda attacks. Continue reading
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Snowden Leaks: Telecoms Giants give GCHQ unlimited access, develop own spyware
Major telecom companies have been assisting the UK intelligence agency GCHQ by granting access to all the traffic passing through their fiber-optic cables – and by developing Trojan software, leaked papers obtained by German media reveal. Continue reading
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Big Brother IS Watching: Cameron Proposes State Control Over Internet Access
Internet service providers from the Open Rights Group have confirmed the news, following Cameron’s Monday revelation that by the end of 2013, broadband subscribers will have to make do with a compulsory system installed everywhere to monitor various content the government deems harmful. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (10/13)
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. USE OF DRONES: A new poll has found that the US policy of drone strikes remains unpopular around the world2. EU: FREEZING AND CONFISCATION OF ASSETS3. EU: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Council’s public register of documents hits 2 million mark Continue reading
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NSA is more than just a spy network, it’s global fascism
Despite the size and scope of Edward Snowden’s NSA whistleblowing, there’s little sign of Washington DC changing its practices, and even less of an indication that any of its European allies will actually hold it to account. Continue reading
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Greenwald: Snowden has enough information to cause US govt ‘worst damage in history’
Former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden possesses dangerous information which could potentially lead to America’s “worst nightmare” if it is revealed, according to the journalist who first published Snowden’s leaked documents. Continue reading
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More details emerge of the UK’s illegal mass spying By Robert Stevens
UK charity Privacy International has begun a legal case calling for the British government to end the use of data collected by the US National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) mass surveillance system, Prism. Continue reading
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