Prism : la NSA a payé les géants du web d’après The Guardian — Euronews. Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations. The prospects for a new trade pact between the US and the European Union worth hundreds of billions have suffered a severe setback following allegations that Washington bugged key EU offices and intercepted phonecalls and emails from top officials.
The latest reports of NSA snooping on Europe – and on Germany in particular – went well beyond previous revelations of electronic spying said to be focused on identifying suspected terrorists, extremists and organised criminals. The NSA's Prism: why we should care. The revelations about Prism and other forms of NSA dragnet surveillance has got some people wondering what all the fuss is.
When William Hague tells us that the innocent have nothing to fear from involuntary disclosure, it raises questions about exactly what harms might come about from being spied upon. Here are some reasons you should care about privacy, disclosure and surveillance. PRISM NSA : pourquoi nous devrions nous sentir concernés, par Doctorow. Vous devriez vous sentir concerné par votre vie privée car…
Le programme Prism aurait permis d'éviter une cinquantaine d'attentats. Lors d'une audition devant une commission du Congrès américain à Washington, le directeur de l'agence de renseignement américaine NSA, le général Keith Alexander, a défendu mardi le programme Prism de surveillance d'internet et du réseau téléphonique comme un outil vital ayant contribué à déjouer une cinquantaine d'attentats dans le monde depuis le 11 septembre 2001.
Un responsable du FBI a donné des détails supplémentaires sur quatre de ces projets, dont l'un visait le métro de New York. The Snowden Principle. John Cusack, actor, filmmaker, and board member of journalism advocacy group Freedom of the Press Foundation, on the ethics of civil disobedience in whistleblowing.
Edward Snowden : qui ne dit mot consent. « Je ne peux, en mon âme et conscience, laisser le gouvernement américain détruire la vie privée, la liberté d’Internet et les libertés essentielles pour les gens tout autour du monde au moyen de ce système énorme de surveillance qu’il est en train de bâtir secrètement. » Les révélations d’Edward Snowden – celui par qui le scandale des programmes de surveillance de l’Internet et des télécommunications de la NSA est arrivé – éclaboussent tout le monde, mais les réactions laissent à désirer.
Hasard du calendrier, plusieurs autorités de protection des données, dont la Cnil, viennent de mettre Google en demeure de se conformer aux lois en ce qui concerne sa gestion des données utilisateurs. Un petit pas dans la bonne direction, mais qui risque fort de ne pas être suivi d’effet. Mais qui va protéger Snowden de l’accusation d’espionnage, de vol et d’utilisation illégale d’informations classifiées concernant la Défense nationale, et du mandat d’arrêt lancé contre lui par les Etats-Unis ?
NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say. Lawyers and intelligence experts with direct knowledge of two intercepted terrorist plots that the Obama administration says confirm the value of the NSA's vast data-mining activities have questioned whether the surveillance sweeps played a significant role, if any, in foiling the attacks.
The defence of the controversial data collection operations, highlighted in a series of Guardian disclosures over the past week, has been led by Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, and her equivalent in the House, Mike Rogers. The two politicians have attempted to justify the NSA's use of vast data sweeps such as Prism and Boundless Informant by pointing to the arrests and convictions of would-be New York subway bomber Najibullah Zazi in 2009 and David Headley, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Everything you need to know about the NSA’s phone records scandal. By Timothy B.
Lee June 6, 2013 On Wednesday, The Guardian released a classified court order requiring Verizon to turn over records of all domestic phone calls to the National Security Agency. U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program. The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S.
Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post. The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind. The NSA prides itself on stealing secrets and breaking codes, and it is accustomed to corporate partnerships that help it divert data traffic or sidestep barriers. But there has never been a Google or Facebook before, and it is unlikely that there are richer troves of valuable intelligence than the ones in Silicon Valley.
The NSA Files: PRISM & Boundless Information. M.I.A. Revisits Criticism of /\/\/\Y/\'s "The Message" in Light of NSA Surveillance Revelations. M.I.A.: "Bring the Noize" (via SoundCloud) "The Message", the opening track on M.I.A.'s 2010 record /\/\/\Y/\ caught a lot of flack for lines perceived as politically juvenile: "Headbone connects to the neckbone/ Neckbone connects to the armbone/ Armbone connects to the handbone/ Handbone connects to the internet/ Connected to the Google/ Connected to the government" and "Headbone connected to the headphones/ Headphones connected to the iPhone/ iPhone connected to the internet/ Connected to the Google/ Connected to the government.
" Now, presumably in light of the recent news about the N.S.A.'s surveillance program, M.I.A. has taken to her Tumblr to revisit the three-year-old criticisms of those lyrics (including ours, which called the song "a bad demo with a simplistic, paranoid rap that's as rhetorically effective as someone in a dorm room ranting about the C.I.A. inventing A.I.D.S. "). M.I.A.' La Chine et Snowden : élargissement du domaine PRISM.