Thomas Drake: The Edward Snowden revelations broke when I was serving as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. I experienced firsthand the reality that secrecy in the service of national security is sometimes necessary in our nation’s surveillance programs. Unfortunately, I also saw that claims of secrecy can be used by our intelligence agencies to spy on Americans without warrants and in violation of the Constitution.
"the government argues that upstream surveillance is too secret for Wikimedia’s case to go forward, invoking the “state secrets privilege” and claiming that any use of sensitive evidence to defend the case could hurt national security. In a split decision, a federal appeals court threw out the case citing state secrets."
March 30th, 2019 By Whitney Webb The story behind the decision to shutter its Snowden archive suggests issues of cost were unlikely to have been behind the action.
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Amazon is the leading cloud provider for the United States intelligence community. In 2013, Amazon entered into a $600 million contract with the CIA to build a cloud for use by intelligence agencies working with information classified as Top Secret. Then, in 2017, Amazon announced the AWS Secret Region, which allows storage of data classified up to the Secret level by a broader range of agencies and companies. Amazon also operates a special GovCloud region for US Government agencies hosting unclassified information.
SORM is the technical infrastructure for surveillance in Russia. It dates back to 1995 and has evolved from SORM-1 (capturing telephone and mobile phone communications) and SORM-2 (interception of Internet traffic, 1999) to the current SORM-3. SORM now collects information from all forms of communication, providing long-term storage of all information and data on subscribers, including actual recordings and locations. In 2014, the system was expanded to include social media platforms, and the Ministry of Communications ordered companies to install new equipment with Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) capability. In 2016, SORM-3 added additional classified regulations that apply to all Internet Service providers in Russia. The European Court for Human Rights deemed Russia's SORM legislation in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights in 2015 (Zakharov v. Russia).
afp/svd aug 2010: Den thailändska regeringen har tagit bort tiotusentals dokument från internet under de senaste åren – främst på grund av förolämpningar mot kungahuset. Ett brott som i Thailand kan resultera i 15 års fängelse. En speciell it-brottsenhet
The Guardian, 16 Oct 2010: "Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Austral
by Felix Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts and one of the moderators of the mailing list nettime. He lives in Vienna, travels abroad and archives his public output at http://felix.openflows.com
Bruce Sterling: "Julian Assange’s extremely weird version of dissident “living in truth” doesn’t bear much relationship to the way that public life has ever been arranged. It does, however, align very closely to what we’ve done to ourselves by inventing a
By Robert Manne: "At the core of the cypherpunk philosophy was the belief that the great question of politics in the age of the internet was whether the state would strangle individual freedom and privacy through its capacity for electronic surveillance o
In the Censored News pick for the Best of the Best in 2011, Wikileaks claims first prize. Wikileaks exposed the US corporate schemes, espionage, promotion of mining and efforts globally to halt passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Reportage i Die Zeit, bygger på data från Deutsche Telekom via gröna politikern Malte Spitz mobiltelefon under 6 månader år 2009. "... the Chaos Computer Club has rechristened the powerful mini-computers we carry around with us as "tracking devices" revealing where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing."
RT 18.4.: "The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has been approved by the House of Representatives. One of the Congressman evoked Monday's deadly bombings in Boston as a reason to pass it. RT America's website producer, Andrew Blake is closely following the debates over the bill "
William Marsden, Postmedia News , August 14, 2013 "On June 7, 1942, the Chicago Tribune published an astonishing scoop that the Americans had known in advance the identity of the Japanese ships that were about to take part in what would become America’s most famous naval victory, the Battle of Midway.[...] Few would deny the serious threat that the Tribune story posed to the allied war effort. The story could have tipped the Japanese to the fact that the U.S. had cracked their codes. As recently released archives show, the government was eager to prosecute the reporter, newspaper and its owner Robert (The Colonel) McCormick. Yet it failed."
German Television does first Edward Snowden Interview (ENGLISH) German Television Channel NDR does an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden. Uploaded on LiveLeak cause German Television thinks the rest of the world isn't intereseted in Edward Snowden.