Rousseff used her speech at the UN General Assembly to strongly criticize the US for spying on Brazil and violating its sovereignty and international law. She cancelled a state visit to the US in response to NSA surveillance including spying on her emails and intercepting communications of state companies and diplomats. While Obama did not directly address her criticisms, he acknowledged the need to balance security concerns with privacy. Rousseff proposed an international framework for internet governance and said Brazil would adopt measures to protect itself from illegal communication interception.
UK’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that at least 273 civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia have been killed by drone strikes launched under President Obama’s watch.
Grace Mugabe Diplomatic Immunity - Justin M Papka - BSIS Journal of Internati...Povo News
The Grace Mugabe Incident: Defining Immunity and Inviolability of Spouses of Heads of State by Justin M. Papka from the BSIS Journal of International Studies, Vol 6 (2009)
UK’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that at least 273 civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia have been killed by drone strikes launched under President Obama’s watch.
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The Grace Mugabe Incident: Defining Immunity and Inviolability of Spouses of Heads of State by Justin M. Papka from the BSIS Journal of International Studies, Vol 6 (2009)
Anger swells after NSA phone records collection revelationstrupassion
The scale of America's surveillance state was laid bare on Thursday as senior politicians revealed that the US counter-terrorism effort had swept up swaths of personal data from the phone calls of millions of citizens for years.
After the revelation by the Guardian of a sweeping secret court order that authorised the FBI to seize all call records from a subsidiary of Verizon, the Obama administration sought to defuse mounting anger over what critics described as the broadest surveillance ruling ever issued.
Anger swells after NSA phone records collection revelationstrupassion
The scale of America's surveillance state was laid bare on Thursday as senior politicians revealed that the US counter-terrorism effort had swept up swaths of personal data from the phone calls of millions of citizens for years.
After the revelation by the Guardian of a sweeping secret court order that authorised the FBI to seize all call records from a subsidiary of Verizon, the Obama administration sought to defuse mounting anger over what critics described as the broadest surveillance ruling ever issued.
Em uma carta aberta divulgada hoje, mais de 40 grupos de liberdade de imprensa e liberdades civis condenaram as acusações de crime cibernético contra o jornalista vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer Glenn Greenwald. As entidades internacionais exigem que as autoridades brasileiras retirem as acusações imediatamente.
Obama administration defends massive phone record collectiontrupassion
The Obama administration on Thursday defended its collection of the telephone records of millions of Americans as part of U.S. counter terrorism efforts, re-igniting a fierce debate over privacy even as it called the program critical to warding off an attack.
The admission came after Britain's Guardian newspaper published on Wednesday a secret court order authorizing the collection of phone records generated by millions of Verizon Communications(VZ.N) customers.
Privacy advocates blasted the order as unconstitutional government surveillance and called for a review of the program amid renewed concerns about intelligence-gathering efforts launched after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
British Inteligence to Confidential about TrumpSusana Gallardo
A former British intelligence officer who is now a director of a private security
-
and-
investigations firm has been identified as the author of the dossier of
unverified allegations about President
-elect Donald Trump’s activities and
connections in Russia, people familiar with the matter say.
Christopher Steele, a director of London
-based Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd.,
prepared the dossier, the people said. The document alleges that the Kremlin
colluded with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign and claims that Russian officials
have compromising evidence of Mr. Trump’s behavior that could be used to
blackmail him. Mr. Trump has dismissed the dossier’s contents as false and
Russia has denied the claims.
Mr. Steele, 52 years old, is one of two directors of the firm, along with
Christopher Burrows, 58.
Mr. Burrows, reached at his home outside London on Wednesday, said he
wouldn’t “confirm or deny” that Orbis had produced the report. A neighbor of Mr.
Steele’s said Mr. Steele said
he would be away for a few days. In previous weeks
Mr. Steele has declined repeated requests for interviews through an
intermediary, who said the subject was “too hot.”
A LinkedIn profile in Mr. Burrows’s name says he was a counselor in the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, with foreign postings in Brussels and New Delhi in
the 2000s. The Foreign Office declined to comment. A LinkedIn profile for Mr.
Steele doesn’t give specifics about his career. Intelligence officers often use
diplomatic postings as cove
r for their espionage activities.
Cyber Espionage The Silent Crime of Cyberspace Virginia GOllieShoresna
Cyber Espionage: The Silent Crime of Cyberspace
Virginia Greiman
Boston University, Boston, USA
[email protected]
Abstract: In recent years, the disclosure of secrets through cyber infiltration of America’s largest intelligence organization,
the National Security Agency (NSA), has raised the fears of veteran intelligence officials and close allies around the globe that
no institution or government is secure from those who roam the discrete halls of cyberspace. Although espionage has existed
since before the days of the Greek mythological Trojan horse, no one could have envisioned the sophisticated use of
espionage in today’s networked world. Espionage has been used for political and military intelligence and economic and
industrial pursuits with a lack of understanding of all of the impacts on our daily lives. In the context of foreign or international
law, espionage is sometimes characterized as lawless, without controls or regulation, and it rarely distinguishes between
economic and security based cyber espionage. Through empirical analysis this paper explores the treatment of espionage
under various legal systems including those countries and regions considered the most advanced at cyber espionage, the
United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and China. To provide greater insight into the different perspectives of cyber
espionage from a legal standpoint, this paper distinguishes the law of national intelligence collection from the criminal laws
of economic/industrial espionage on the domestic front. The purpose of this research is to analyze the development of cyber
espionage as a preferred means of contemporary warfare, as well as a tool for economic and political intelligence. The paper
concludes by responding to the challenges faced by nation-states in the development of an effective legal system governing
espionage at the domestic and international level.
Keywords: cyber espionage, cybercrime, foreign surveillance, national intelligence, economic espionage, cyber warfare
1. Introduction
Although many countries all over the world are committing cyber espionage, the United States, Russia, and China
represent the most sophisticated cyber spying capabilities (Senate, 2014). A 2011 Report by the Office of the
National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX) suggested that the rise of cyberspace as a platform for
innovation and storage of trade secrets was greatly enhancing the risks faced by American firms. The report also
found that the United States remains the prime target for foreign economic collection and industrial espionage
by virtue of its global technological leadership and innovation (ONCIX, 2011).
Cyber espionage has also become an accepted and even preferred means of warfare. That is not to say that
cyber espionage will replace traditional means of warfare, but it is already affecting the nature of nation-state
conflict. Dunn Cavelty (2012) suggests that this shift began with the Cold War ...
Brazil 2015: A Perfect Storm Derails President Rousseff's AgendaMSL
After only three months in office, President Dilma Rousseff’s approval rating fell from 46% in October to just 12% at the end of March, according to national polls conducted by Ibope. The reasons for the decrease are due to a so-called “perfect storm” – a combination of an economic crisis and political mistakes that fueled the mobilization of various sectors of society in large demonstrations in the main cities of Brazil, demanding anti-corruption measures and impeachment of the President.
In this report, we analyze the factors that led to this situation and share an outlook for 2015. For more information connect with MSLGROUP's Latin America contact: Josh Shapiro josh.shapiro@mslgroup.com or share your feedback with us on twitter @msl_group.
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Edward Snowden is a hero or a criminal
Edward Snowden, a low-level private contractor to the US-based National Security Agency (NSA), breached moral confidentiality and secrecy obligations by engaging in unauthorized accessing, retrieving and/or releasing of a large volume of confidential data from NSA to the press and, possibly, to foreign powers. Edward Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a computer programmer who worked as a subcontractor for the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden collected top-secret documents regarding NSA domestic surveillance practices that he found disturbing and leaked them. During his years of IT work, Snowden had noticed the far reach of the NSA's everyday surveillance.
“While working for Booz Allen, Snowden began copying top-secret NSA documents.”
(Biography.com, 2019) After he had compiled a large store of documents, Snowden told his NSA supervisor that he needed a leave of absence for medical reasons, stating he had been diagnosed with epilepsy. On May 20, 2013, Snowden took a flight to Hong Kong, China. (Biography.com, 2019)
As mentioned by author Rouse in her article referring, he leaked and also raised questions about data sovereignty and how secure a company's data really is if it's stored by a cloud provider based in the United States. In 2014, almost 90% of respondents to a survey commissioned by security consultancy NTT Communications said they were changing their cloud-buying behavior as a result of Snowden’s revelations. Just over half said they are carrying out greater due diligence on cloud providers than ever before, and more than four-fifths responded that they would seek out more training on data protection laws. (Rouse, 2015)
Snowden has also been accused of irregularities under the Espionage Law for knowingly discovering mysterious national security data. When these charges were opened, newspapers quickly guaranteed that he was accused of undercover work. Such cases are not exactly accurate. Undercover work is commonly characterized as
"the act of spying ... to acquire data on plans and exercises, particularly from an external government."
(Richa, (2015) Although there have been hypotheses as to whether the nations to which Snowden fled (Russia and China) have kept their records, there is still no evidence that he has continued to his advantage or helped them easily as would be the case. The situation with great recognition. (Richa, (2015)
Contrary to Snowden’s claim about wanting to stand up for his fellow Americans, the information he leaked actually created more harm than good.
“The majority of the information that he shared is about the U.S. spying on foreign nations and not its domestic operations.”
(Rachel Segal, 2019) As such, he risked damaging America’s relatio.
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