XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

[AgeofKnowledge]

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

• XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data
• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches
• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' | World news | theguardian.com

"A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.

The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian's earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight.

The files shed light on one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardian on June 10.

"I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email"."

 

[Drett]

What is needed is a human rights group listening in to what the government is doing.

 

[Oncefallen]

What is needed is a human rights group listening in to what the government is doing.

We already have dozens of organizations that play watchdog to the government. Frequently they end up labeled as conspiracy theorist wackos.

 

[Ritter]

All I want is a representative republic that doesn't spy on me. Is that too much to ask?

Here's another question to ask: do we not live too much of our lives on the internet as it is?

I can see people going off the grid again eventually. Learning how to depend on each other.

 

[apocalypseArisen]

From what I see, no one has heard of this program, or cares. Its the same thing with the phone hacking, all we Americans do is say "yup, a course the gov'ments been spyin' on us!" and maybe write a critical post on facebook.

Meanwhile Europe is protesting it cause they don't like the idea of their people being spied on by a foreign government...but americans think when their own gov. does it it's fine. I think Land of the Apathetic is a bit more of a reasonable name for our nation then anything else at this point -.-

 

[Ritter]

From what I see, no one has heard of this program, or cares. Its the same thing with the phone hacking, all we Americans do is say "yup, a course the gov'ments been spyin' on us!" and maybe write a critical post on facebook.

Meanwhile Europe is protesting it cause they don't like the idea of their people being spied on by a foreign government...but americans think when their own gov. does it it's fine. I think Land of the Apathetic is a bit more of a reasonable name for our nation then anything else at this point -.-

That or the land of the perpetually distracted.

 

[Dude653]

They're looking for terrorists and pedophiles. Neither of these applies to me so im not concerned

 

[PennEd]

They're looking for terrorists and pedophiles. Neither of these applies to me so im not concerned

I guess you'd have no problem with them searching through your mail,collecting your DNA and fingerprints, or searching your house without a warrant. After all you have nothing to hide.

 

[jkalyna]

They're looking for terrorists and pedophiles. Neither of these applies to me so im not concerned

just take a dive into the word, you'll always come up with treasures... Jesus our oxygen tank, keep it filled with prayer...

 

[zone]

All I want is a representative republic that doesn't spy on me. Is that too much to ask?

Here's another question to ask: do we not live too much of our lives on the internet as it is?

I can see people going off the grid again eventually. Learning how to depend on each other.

gonna be pretty hard to do eventually ritter.
they got drones to make sure you're not giving raw milk to your neighbor
you know....that horrible awful crime.
milk.

 

[zone]

31 July 2013 Last updated at 21:48 ET

US declassifies phone-snooping order

The Obama administration has released documents on its phone-snooping, as a Senate panel questions intelligence officials about the programme.

The declassification was made in the "interest of increased transparency", intelligence officials said.

But significant parts of the three released documents were redacted.

BBC News - US declassifies phone-snooping order

 

[zone]

Thousands in spy march

By Matthew Backhouse @Mbackhouse , John Weekes

5:30 AM Sunday Jul 28, 2013

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in 11 cities across the country yesterday to voice their concerns at plans to widen the powers of the Government's spy agency.

More than 2,000 attended a rally in Auckland, where Kim Dotcom told the crowd the GCSB invaded his privacy simply because Hollywood moguls disliked his business. "If they can do that to me they can do that to any of you."

Thousands in spy march - National - NZ Herald News

Kim Dotcom?
serious?

mkay

 

[zone]

Cameron Looks to China to Supply Europe’s First Internet Censorship Wall in Britain

JULY 31, 2013 BY 21WIRE LEAVE A COMMENT

Never let a good crisis go to waste…

So David Cameron’s government has finally laid his cards on the table.

Getting the press and the public to comply with the draconian Leveson Star Chamber’s clampdown on freedom of expression and information was a hard sell, to say the least.

Leveson’s secret closed door agreement to require UK bloggers to sign up to a “Royal Charter” in order to post on independent websites revealed Leveson’s long game.

The public would never buy it. So now on to plan B…

The latest outcry over pornographic images on the internet has provided the pretext for the state to step in and set-up their infrastructure for regulating the UK’s internet Chinese-style. Once the system is in place, you can expect that the government will not be able to resist extending their filtering from porn to blocking dissenting and alternative analysis that exposes the government for being either incompetent, criminal, or corrupt. Government firewalls designed to block child porn or pedophilia could also block thousands of damning articles on the same subject which implicate members of the government and the establishment for participating in child sex abuse.

The pornography filtering system praised by David Cameron will be run by the Chinese firm, Huawei. They should know a thing or two about how to keep citizens from accessing information the government doesn’t want people to see.

Huawei’s penetration into the UK’s telecommunications industry and networks is already significant…

Cameron Looks to China to Supply Europe’s First Internet Censorship Wall in Britain < click


oh...didn't GOOGLE (NSA) provide China with the stuff

The Beijing Express
Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council | The Beijing Express < click

all cool - uber trading partners and whatnot.
specially drones and telecom stuff.

but then.....

New Huawei allegations - Iranian partner breaching US sanctions
Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council | New Huawei allegations - Iranian partner breaching US sanctions < click

oh of course!
it's IRAN behind the whole Huawei dealy.
supposedly.
maybe.

...

November 30, 2012 9:34 am

Newspapers return fire on Leveson

By Ben Fenton

UK newspapers reacted negatively on Friday to what Lord Justice Leveson called the “essential” part of his recommendations to reform press behaviour, the use of law to underpin an independent self-regulator.

financialtimes.com

.....

what exactly is it they don't want us to talk about

Leveson’s secret closed door agreement to require UK bloggers to sign up to a “Royal Charter” in order to post on independent websites revealed Leveson’s long game.

oh i know, it's.....

 

[Dude653]

Yeah it would just be terrible if the government saw everytime i post a silly pic on facebook or go to lol cats

 

[Praus]

What is needed is a human rights group listening in to what the government is doing.

U.S. Department of State

The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago. Since then, a central goal of U.S. foreign policy has been the promotion of respect for human rights, as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The United States understands that the existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises.

Human Rights

 

[zone]

Yeah it would just be terrible if the government saw everytime i post a silly pic on facebook or go to lol cats

ya, i think you're fine.
no threat at all.
mind you, you never know when they'll pull a patsy from the database.
depends on the you they have profiled.
you might be just what's needed one day.

"he seemed like the nicest guy...quiet, never bothered anyone....we never would have guessed"
you know how it goes.

just a lone nut. one day he was posting cat pics, and the next, well.
but nah. i'm sure you're no ezra pound.