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• "Yahoo - secretly monitored emails - on behalf of the NSA !"

 

 

 

 

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• "Yahoo had complied with a classified directive - scanned hundreds of millions !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "of Yahoo Mail accounts - at the behest of the NSA !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Yahoo had secretly built a custom software program - searched its customers’ incoming emails !"

 

 

 

 

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• "for specific information - at the request of officials of NSA - or FBI !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "experts said this represented the first known case - of an Internet company !"

 

 

 

 

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• "agreed to demand - generally searched arriving messages !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision - obeyed the directive - troubled some senior executives !"

 

 

 

 

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• "and led to the departure - of the chief information security officer !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "revelations about the Prism - and Upstream programs - where Yahoo was named !"

 

 

 

 

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• "showed that US citizens - were subject to mass surveillance !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Andrew Crocker - Electronic Frontier Foundation - said inside the US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "scanning all emails - is fully protected - by the fourth amendment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "it is hard to see - how they could justify requiring Yahoo - to search emails like that !"

 

 

 

 

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• "there is no warrant - that could possibly justify scanning - all emails !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the program was discovered by - Yahoo’s security team - within weeks of its installation !"

 

 

 

 

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• "staff initially thought - hackers had broken in !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "when Stamos found out - that Mayer had authorized the program !"

 

 

 

 

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• "he resigned as - chief information security officer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "and told his subordinates - that he had been left out of a decision !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "due to a programming flaw - he said !"

 

 

 

 

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• "hackers could have accessed - the stored emails !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the users’ security - must be protected !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the demand for the search - came in the form of a classified directive - sent to the company’s legal team !"

 

 

 

 

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• "former officials said they had not previously seen - such a broad directive - for real-time web collection !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "bulk customer data - must not be handed over to intelligence agencies - by phone and Internet companies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "ACLU staff attorney Patrick Toomey said - that the demand made on Yahoo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "was "unprecedented" - and potentially unconstitutional !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Yahoo should have chosen - not to comply - with this order !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "in the post-Snowden world - customers are counting on - technology companies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "to stand up - to novel spying demands - in court !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Senator Ron Wyden said - about the collection under Section 702 - of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act !"

 

 

 

 

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• "it was public record - that this surveillance program - was the basis !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "for warrantless searches - of emails of US people - and they had never even counted how many !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the NSA had said - that it only targeted individuals - under Section 702 !"

 

 

 

 

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• "searched for email addresses - and similar identifiers !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "if that has changed - they have an obligation - to notify the public !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Mayer and other executives ultimately decided - to comply with the directive - rather than fight it !"

 

 

 

 

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• "Yahoo employees were upset - about the decision - not to contest the directive !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "and thought the company - could have prevailed !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "they were also upset - that Mayer - and Yahoo general counsel Ron Bell !"

 

 

 

 

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• "did not involve the - company’s security team - in the process !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "instead asked - Yahoo’s email engineers - to write the program !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Congress passed surveillance reform - the "USA Freedom Act"  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "three parts of the Patriot Act - expired !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "but many Americans - across party lines - wanted a stronger bill !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the "USA Freedom Act" restored - expired powers of the FBI !"

 

 

 

 

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• "notably the "business records" - "lone wolf" - and "roving wiretap" provisions !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "several forms of surveillance of US citizens - introduced by Bush ! - ( and altered in secret - by the NSA ! )"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "but the "USA Freedom Act" - puts an end !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "to the NSA’s indiscriminate collection - of US phone records !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• question: - "so that’s it - the FBI can’t listen to US phone calls anymore - right ?!"

 

 

 

 

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• "wrong - the FBI would do - whatever it wanted !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "with US phone calls - provided it had a warrant !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "section 215 of the Patriot Act - used by the FBI obtained US metadata - was restored !"

 

 

 

 

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• "but the Freedom Act - stops the NSA - from collecting US phone records - in bulk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the main statute the FBI used - listened in directly on US phone calls !"

 

 

 

 

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• "was called Calea - the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Fisa created a secret court - that issued orders related to surveillance - including US citizens !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "so even as the "USA Freedom Act" - is watered down - the Congress is restricting the NSA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "( first time - since 1978 ! )"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "email from CIA director John Brennan’s - personal account !"

 

 

 

 

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• "he wrote under the title - "intel position paper"  !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "that they should have a national intelligence system - that brought together the capabilities !"

 

 

 

 

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• "of their collection - analytic - and technical communities !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "in a manner - that promoted - security interests !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the intel community should not be subject - to political manipulation - and interference !"

 

 

 

 

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• "the intel mission should involve - departments - and agencies - and the private sector !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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the World says no to mass Surveillance - Edward Snowden: LINK ¤ NEW YORK TIMES

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• "Edward Snowden writes - "at first three journalists and he - worked in a Hong Kong hotel room" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "waiting to see how the world - would react - to the NSA revelations ?!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "in the days that followed - those journalists and others published documents - revealed that !"

 

 

 

 

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• "the private activities of ordinary citizens - had been monitoring - who had done nothing wrong !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the US government responded - brought charges against him - under a 1914 espionage law !"

 

 

 

 

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• "some journalists were advised by lawyers - that they risked subpoena - if they returned to the US !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "there were moments - when he thought he could put his life at risk for nothing - that the public could react with indifference !"

 

 

 

 

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• "never has he been so grateful - to have been so wrong !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "now the difference is profound - there is a strong public debate !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the NSA’s call-tracking program - is declared unlawful by the courts - and disowned by Congress !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "after an oversight board investigation found - that this program had not stopped a single attack !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the president has now ordered it - terminated !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "this is the power - of an informed public !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "ending the mass surveillance - of private phone calls - under the Patriot Act !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "is a historic victory - for the rights of every citizen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "but it is only the latest product - of a change - in global awareness !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "institutions across Europe - rule similar laws - and operations - illegal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "and impose new restrictions - on future activities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the United Nations declare - mass surveillance - an unambiguous violation of human rights !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "in Latin America - the efforts of citizens in Brazil - led to the Marco Civil - an Internet Bill of Rights !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "recognizing the critical role of informed citizens - in correcting the security agencies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the Council of Europe calls for new laws - to protect whistle-blowers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "beyond the frontiers of law - progress comes even more quickly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "technologists have worked tirelessly - to re-engineer the security - of the devices !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "that surround us - along with the language of the Internet - itself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "secret flaws in critical infrastructure - have been detected and corrected !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "basic technical safeguards - such as encryption - are now enabled by default - in the products of some companies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "such structural technological changes - ensure access to basic privacies - beyond borders !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "but for example metadata - about the personal associations and interests - of ordinary Internet users !"

 

 

 

 

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• "must also be regulated - must not be on a mass scale !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "at the turning of the millennium - few imagined that citizens - of developed democracies !"

 

 

 

 

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• "would have to defend - the concept of an - open society !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "yet the balance of power - now shifts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "with each court victory - with every change in the law !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "we demonstrate facts - democracy - and common values - are most convincing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "as a society - we rediscover that the value - of a right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

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• "is not in what it hides - but in what it protects !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YAHOO - Wikipedia EN: LINK ¤ YAHOO

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• "nach dem Datendiebstahl von 500 Millionen Kunden - sah sich die Internetfirma Yahoo !"

 

 

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• "nun mit weiteren schweren Anschuldigungen konfrontiert - das Unternehmen hatte !"

 

 

 

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• "die eingehenden E-Mails von allen Kunden - auf Anweisung von der NSA überwacht !"

 

 

 

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• "konkret wurde ein eigenes Programm entwickelt - das jede neue eingetroffene Nachricht automatisch !"

 

 

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• "nach den angeforderten Informationen durchsucht hatte - hunderte Millionen Mails !"

 

 

 

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• "Grundlage dafür war eine geheime Anordnung - dies war das erste Mal - dass ein Onlineunternehmen !"

 

 

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• "sich dazu bereit erklärt hatte - neu eingehende Mails der Kunden - praktisch in Echtzeit zu überwachen !"

 

 

 

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• "die Entscheidung der Fisa-Direktive Folge zu leisten - war letztlich von Firmenchefin Marissa Mayer getroffen worden !"

 

 

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• "das nicht darüber in Kenntnis gesetzte Sicherheitsteam von Yahoo - hatte das Abhörprogramm !"

 

 

 

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• "nur wenige Wochen nach seiner Installation entdeckt - und war ursprünglich von einem Hackerangriff ausgegangen !"

 

 

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• "kurz darauf verließ der Sicherheitschef die Firma - was unmittelbar mit diesem Vorfall zusammenhängte !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Edward Snowden schreibt von einem historischen Sieg - für die Rechte eines jeden Bürgers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

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• "in einem Beitrag zur Einschränkung der Befugnisse der NSA - äußert er sich anerkennend über die Geheimdienstreform !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

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• "es ist das jüngste Resultat - eines Wandels - im globalen Bewusstsein !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

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• "der US-Kongress - hatte die von Barack Obama vorgeschlagene Geheimdienstreform - angenommen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

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• "der Senat stimmte für den sogenannten - "USA Freedom Act" - der aber etwas verwässert wurde !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

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• "( dieser ermöglicht begründeten Datenzugriff - doch die Daten verbleiben bei den Telefonfirmen ! )"

 

 

 

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• "das Recht auf Privatsphäre - muss überall auf dem Globus - geschützt werden !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

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• "der Whistleblower Snowden schreibt - dass aufgrund des NSA-Skandals !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

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• "enorme technische - und politische Fortschritte - zu beobachten sind !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

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• "so werden etwa Verschlüsselungsprogramme - nun standardmäßig von Firmen aktiviert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

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• "in Europa - und andernorts - werden etliche Überwachungsmethoden !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

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• "der Geheimdienste - für rechtswidrig erklärt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

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• "das Machtgleichgewicht - verschiebt sich !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

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• "es gibt eine Politik - die sich der Widerstandsfähigkeit - und Vernunft zuwendet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

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• "und es gibt ein - globales Bewußtsein - für Werte !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YAHOO - Wikipedia DE: LINK ¤ YAHOO

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