SvD ”Nu solkas bilden av internethjälten” (dvs Carl Bildt) De svenska NSA-avslöjandena är inte helt lätta att få grepp om. Men en sak står klar: De solkar ner bilden av Sverige som global förkämpe för ett fritt internet. "Det finns en svårignorerad dubbelhet i att ha en utrikesminister som reser världen runt och förespråkar ett fritt internet, samtidigt som Sverige för några år sedan införde en starkt kritiserad lag som ger staten ökade befogenheter att övervaka internet. " Thomas Brandel
Slutgiltig version 10 juli 2013 - The product of over a year of consultation among civil society, privacy and technology experts (read here, here, here and here), the principles have already been co-signed by over hundred organisations from around the world. The process was led by Privacy International, Access, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Dessa principer kan fungera som ett ramverk när organisationer från civilsamhället, näringslivet, stater och andra utvärderar huruvida befintliga eller föreslagna lagar och metoder för övervakning är förenliga med de mänskliga rättigheterna. Principerna är resultatet av ett globalt samråd mellan organisationer från civilsamhället, näringslivet och internationella juridiska experter inom övervakning, policy och teknik för kommunikationsövervakning.
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
Svensk Biblioteksförening 4 november, 2013 IFLA arbetar aktivt med frågor som rör användarnas integritet på biblioteken. Kommittéarbetet inom FAIFE kommer under 2014 bland annat att fokusera på internetmanifestet. Tillsammans med bland andra de amerikanska och brittiska biblioteksföreningarna, American Library Association och CILIP, ska manifestet revideras. Under konferensen Internet Governance Forum på Bali diskuterades de senaste avslöjanden om regeringars övervakningar och hur detta skapar en ny kontext för bibliotekens verksamheter. IFLA menar att biblioteksgemenskapen måste vara förberedd på utvecklingen och fortsätta värna grundläggande värderingar när de tillhandahåller internet till sina användare.
Imagine digital archaeologists coming across the remains of early 21st century civilization in an old data center on the warming tundra. They look around, find some scraps of Buzzfeed and The Atlantic, maybe some Encyclopaedia Britannicas, and then, gleaming in the data: a complete set of Norwegian literature. Suddenly, the Norwegians become to 27th-century humans what the Greeks were to the Renaissance. Everyone names the children of the space colonies Per and Henrik, Amalie and Sigrid. The capital of our new home planet will be christened Oslo.
RT December 11, 2013 “One can experiment as long as one wishes by deploying non-nuclear warheads on strategic missile carriers. But one should keep in mind that if there is an attack against us, we will certainly resort to using nuclear weapons in certain situations to defend our territory and state interests,” Rogozin, the defense industry chief said on Wednesday speaking at the State Duma, the lower house. He pointed out that this principle is enshrined in Russia’s military doctrine. Any aggressor or group of aggressors should be aware of that, he said. “We have never diminished the importance of nuclear weapons – the weapon of requital – as the great balancer of chances,” Rogozin sRussia’s Fund of Perspective Researches (FPI) will develop a military response to the American Conventional Prompt Global Strike (PGS) strategy, Dmitry Rogozin told the State Duma. aid.
Boston Globe 20 Oct 2013: ... another idea Keith wants to test — spraying a cloud of tiny particles of sulfuric acid into the stratosphere to reflect the sun’s heat back into space and keep it from warming the Earth.
Regie: James Bamford, C. Scott Willis "Das jüngste Werk von James Bamford, "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America", bildet die Grundlage der Dokumentation. Darin deckt der amerikanische Journalist und Autor auf, wie die National Security Agency , die amerikanische Nationale Sicherheitsbehörde - deren Existenz übrigens James Bamford 1982 publik machte - die neuesten Informationstechniken anwendet, um im Krieg gegen den Terror an Informationen zu gelangen. Von Lichtwellenleitern bis zur Satellitenkommunikation erkundet er alle Mittel, die der NSA für die Audio- und E-Mail-Überwachung, bei der Millionen von E-Mails abgefangen werden, zur Verfügung stehen."
17 nov 2012 Speakers: JAMEEL JAFFER DEPUTY LEGAL DIRECTOR, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ; WILLIAM BINNEY FORMER OFFICIAL, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY ; JAMES BAMFORD INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST ALEX ABDO STAFF ATTORNEY, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Ambassador Joseph DeTrani was named President of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) on February 5, 2013. As President, he will lead INSA as its Chief Executive Officer on a day-to-day basis.
The Library Publishing Coalition will be an organization dedicated to advancing the emerging field of library publishing. The LPC defines library publishing as the set of activities led by college and university libraries to support the creation, dissemination, and curation of scholarly, creative, and/or educational works. Generally, library publishing requires a production process, presents original work not previously made available, and applies a level of certification to the content published, whether through peer review or extension of the institutional brand. Based on core library values and building on the traditional skills of librarians, it is distinguished from other publishing fields by a preference for Open Access dissemination and a willingness to embrace informal and experimental forms of scholarly communication and to challenge the status quo.
Liu Xiaobo the 2010 Peace Nobel Candidate WIKIPEDIA: "Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波) (born 28 December 1955)[1] is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist single-party rule.[2] He is currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in Jinzhou, Liaoning."