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Germany "in bed" with the

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:43:07 +0000

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Germany "in bed" with the NSA, according to Snowden.

Ars Technica coverage of the

artappraiser — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 03:47:00 +0000

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Ars Technica coverage of the Le Monde story, July 5.

The ProPublica article

rmrd0000 — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 03:17:56 +0000

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The ProPublica article indicates that EU leaders really can't be shocked by what the NSA was doing. The allies were in on the deal.

How the NSA?s High-Tech

artappraiser — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:14:10 +0000

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How the NSA’s High-Tech Surveillance Helped Europeans Catch Terrorists
by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, June 19, 2013

[....] As debate rages in the United States about the National Security Agency's sweeping data-mining programs, I've been on a reporting trip overseas, where I've been talking to sources about the controversy and how differing U.S. and European approaches to counterterrorism can complement each other [....]

Before joining ProPublica, Sebastian Rotella worked at the Los Angeles Times, where he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006 for his coverage of terrorism and Muslim communities in Europe.

Australia shelves plans to

artappraiser — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:04:19 +0000

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Australia shelves plans to store phone, Internet metadata

CANBERRA, June 24, 2013

(Reuters) - Australia's government on Monday shelved plans to force phone and Internet companies to hold two years of phone call and email data following concerns raised by a parliamentary inquiry into telecommunications interception laws.

The move follows long-running criticism by privacy advocates in Australia, and comes in the aftermath of revelations in the United States, where spy agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed secret U.S. surveillance of vast amounts of Internet data under a programe known as Prism.

The government had wanted phone and Internet companies to hold metadata for two years to help fight criminal activity, but lawmakers on the telecommunications inquiry called for changes.

They said Internet browsing data should be excluded from the plans, and called for greater oversight of government agency access to telecommunications data by the ombudsmen and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus responded to the inquiry findings by delaying any changes until after the September 14 parliamentary election [.....]

What do we know about

artappraiser — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:59:58 +0000

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What do we know about Canada's eavesdropping agency?
Communications Security Establishment mines metadata of phone calls and emails
CBC News, June 14, 2013 5:30 AM ET

Revelations about the extent of surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. have sparked interest in the activities of Canada's own, highly secretive agency.

Last week, media reports revealed that the NSA collected hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records while searching for possible links to terrorist targets abroad.

Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail newspaper published a story saying that in 2011, Canadian Defence Minister Peter Mackay had okayed a similar type of clandestine eavesdropping program by the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) to monitor the metadata of electronic communications.

This program was previously approved in 2005 by Bill Graham, the defence minister at the time.

Here’s a closer look at CSEC and what it does. [....]