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For the second time in three days, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper took the rare step of declassifying some details of an intelligence program to respond to media reports about counterterrorism techniques employed by the government.
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The United States government enjoys awesome technological capabilities. It can facilely monitor electronic communications and surreptitiously retrieve stored information on private computer systems through the use of emerging technology. Indeed, technology that was once the stuff of science fiction is now routinely used in real life to monitor the activities of citizens, corporations, even foreign nationals in foreign nations.
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Intelligence chief defends internet spying programabiross34
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to quell a domestic furor over U.S. spying, the nation’s top intelligence official stressed Saturday that a previously undisclosed program for tapping into Internet usage is authorized by Congress, falls under strict supervision of a secret court and cannot intentionally target a U.S. citizen. He decried the revelation of that and another intelligence-gathering program as reckless.
For the second time in three days, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper took the rare step of declassifying some details of an intelligence program to respond to media reports about counterterrorism techniques employed by the government.
‘‘Disclosing information about the specific methods the government uses to collect communications can obviously give our enemies a ‘playbook’ of how to avoid detection,’’ he said in a statement.
Warrantless governmental surveillance through the use of emerging technology ...Vania_Chaker
Abstract: Warrantless Governmental Surveillance through the Use of Emerging Technology Has Become a Mainstay of Governmental Investigation
The United States government enjoys awesome technological capabilities. It can facilely monitor electronic communications and surreptitiously retrieve stored information on private computer systems through the use of emerging technology. Indeed, technology that was once the stuff of science fiction is now routinely used in real life to monitor the activities of citizens, corporations, even foreign nationals in foreign nations.
This blog post raises the question as to whether such powerful governmental capabilities have been tempered by the countervailing protective judicial or legislative safeguards necessary to offset the greatly increased potential for improper government intrusiveness. The word count is 449 words (1,396 words including footnotes).
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The many news reports on cyber security, identity theft, Wikileaks, and NSA intelligence gathering programs over the past few years have shown the international community that the World Wide Web is anything but a safe place to store sensitive information, or any information for that matter. This study will examine how closely multi-national corporations in the information technology sector, such as Google, are involved with national governments on these issues. The study will analyze events in the U.S. and China and attempt to uncover whether or not these have directly infringed upon peoples’ basic human rights.
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With emerging information regarding the NSA's PRISM program and China's "Golden Shield Project", has either country directly infringed on peoples' basic human rights?
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As more information is uncovered regarding the true nature of the aims of these internationally implemented programs, it has become increasingly clear that there have been multiple violations of peoples' human rights in both the United States and China with their respective monitoring programs.
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"Since September 11th, 2001, the United States government has dramatically increased the ability of its intelligence agencies to collect and investigate information on both foreign subjects and US citizens. Some of these surveillance programs, including a secret program called PRISM, capture the private data of citizens who are not suspected of any connection to terrorism or any wrongdoing." (Sottek&Kopstein, 2013) Under the guise of a "war on terror", the United States government has consistently upped its efforts to gather as much information as possible regarding the activities of international and domestic citizens alike. Most U.S. citizens were wholly unaware that the government had been running a secret filtration program to determine threat levels of individual citizens both domestically and abroad. This PRISM project and its intentions have recently been leaked in the Edward Snowden fiasco that took the country and the media by storm.
"PRISM is a tool used by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to collect private electronic data belonging to users of major internet services like Gmail, Facebook, Outlook, and others. It’s the latest evolution of the US government’s post-9/11 electronic surveillance efforts, which began under President Bush with the Patriot Act, and expanded to include the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) enacted in 2006 and 2007." (Sottek&Kopstein, 2013) FISA, "...may be the most powerful court you have never heard of -- operating out of a bunker-like complex blocks from the Capitol and the White House -- sealed tightly to prevent eavesdropping.The FISA Court's larger mission is to decide whether to grant certain types of government requests-- wiretapping, data anal ...
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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.
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For at least six years, US anti-drug agents have used subpoenas to routinely gain access to an enormous AT&T database. It’s an intrusion greater in scale and longevity than the NSA’s collection of phone calls, revealed by Edward Snowden’s leaks.
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Anger swells after NSA phone records collection revelations
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A White House spokesman said that laws governing such orders 'are something that
have been in place for a number of years now'. Photograph: Rex Features
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.
A White House spokesman said that laws governing such orders "are
something that have been in place for a number of years now" and were
vital for protecting national security. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic
chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, said the Verizon court
order had been in place for seven years. "People want the homeland
kept safe," Feinstein said.
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2. But as the implications of the blanket approval for obtaining phone data
reverberated around Washington and beyond, anger grew among other
politicians.
Intelligence committee member Mark Udall, who has previously warned
in broad terms about the scale of government snooping, said: "This sort
of widescale surveillance should concern all of us and is the kind of
government overreach I've said Americans would find shocking." Former
vice-president Al Gore described the "secret blanket surveillance" as
"obscenely outrageous".
The Verizon order was made under the provisions of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) as amended by the Patriot Act of
2001, passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. But one of the authors of
the Patriot Act, Republican congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, said he
was troubled by the Guardian revelations. He said that he had written to
the attorney general, Eric Holder, questioning whether "US constitutional
rights were secure".
He said: "I do not believe the broadly drafted Fisa order is consistent with
the requirements of the Patriot Act. Seizing phone records of millions of
innocent people is excessive and un-American."
The White House sought to defend what it called "a critical tool in
protecting the nation from terrorist threats". White House spokesman
Josh Earnest said Fisa orders were used to "support important and
highly sensitive intelligence collection operations" on which members of
Congress were fully briefed.
"The intelligence community is conducting court-authorized intelligence
activities pursuant to a public statute with the knowledge and oversight of
Congress and the intelligence community in both houses of Congress,"
Earnest said.
He pointed out that the order only relates to the so-called metadata
surrounding phone calls rather than the content of the calls themselves.
"The order reprinted overnight does not allow the government to listen in
on anyone's telephone calls," Earnest said.
"The information acquired does not include the content of any
communications or the name of any subscriber. It relates exclusively to
call details, such as a telephone number or the length of a telephone
call."
But such metadata can provide authorities with vast knowledge about a
caller's identity. Particularly when cross-checked against other public
records, the metadata can reveal someone's name, address, driver's
licence, credit history, social security number and more. Government
analysts would be able to work out whether the relationship between two
people was ongoing, occasional or a one-off.
The disclosure has reignited longstanding debates in the US over the
proper extent of the government's domestic spying powers.
Ron Wyden of Oregon, a member of the Senate intelligence committee
who, along with Udell, has expressed concern about the extent of US
government surveillance, warned of "sweeping, dragnet surveillance". He
said: "I am barred by Senate rules from commenting on some of the
details at this time, However, I believe that when law-abiding Americans
call their friends, who they call, when they call, and where they call from
is private information.
"Collecting this data about every single phone call that every American
makes every day would be a massive invasion of Americans' privacy."
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3. Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union,
said: "From a civil liberties perspective, the program could hardly be any
more alarming. It's a program in which some untold number of innocent
people have been put under the constant surveillance of government
agents.
"It is beyond Orwellian, and it provides further evidence of the extent to
which basic democratic rights are being surrendered in secret to the
demands of unaccountable intelligence agencies."
Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had
disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by
the NSA, but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents
have revealed the continuation of the practice under President Obama.
The order names Verizon Business Services, a division of Verizon
Communications. In its first-quarter earnings report, published in April,
Verizon Communications listed about 10 million commercial lines out of a
total of 121 million customers. The court order, which lasts for three
months from 25 April, does not specify what type of lines are being
tracked. It is not clear whether any additional orders exist to cover
Verizon's wireless and residential customers, or those of other phone
carriers.
Fisa court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a
specific, named target suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or
foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets. The unlimited
nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is extremely
unusual.
Senators Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, and
Saxby Chambliss, the vice chairman, speak to reporters about the NSA cull of phone
records. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Feinstein said she believed the order had been in place for some time.
She said: "As far as I know this is the exact three-month renewal of what
has been the case for the past seven years. This renewal is carried out
by the [foreign intelligence surveillance] court under the business records
section of the Patriot Act. Therefore it is lawful. It has been briefed to
Congress."
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