Internet Freedom
Prism - Associated Press: LINK ¤ ASSOCIATED PRESS
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- "the "Prism" program - records from Internet companies !"
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- "had a manual process as forerunner - in the early years after 2001 !"
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- "they began showing up at - Microsoft Corp - more frequently than before !"
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- "with court orders - demanded information - on customers !"
- "they wanted email archives - account information - and quickly !"
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- "Microsoft engineers - had compiled the data - sometimes by hand !"
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- "and had delivered it to them - the engineers had called it - "hoovering" !"
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- "after the controversial - J. Edgar Hoover - who tried to use information !"
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- "on US persons - in a special - and immorally way !"
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- "they wanted a - streamlined - electronic process !"
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- "which required less time - and provided the data - in a more standard format !"
- "what they called "Prism" - the companies knew as a - streamlined system !"
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- "that automated - and simplified - that "hoovering" !"
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- "they wanted the data - in a structured format - and the companies wanted to reduce - their workload !"
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- "one expert in national security law - who was directly familiar !"
- "with how Internet companies - dealt with them - during that period !"
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- "recalled conversations - in which technology officials - worried aloud !"
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- "that they must not trample - on the constitutional rights - of US persons !"
US Phone Calls - CNET: LINK ¤ CNET
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- "in a secret Capitol Hill briefing - they disclosed !"
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- "that analysts - could listen - to phone calls - in the USA !"
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- "the same legal standards - that applied to phone calls - also applied !"
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- "to e-mail messages - text messages - and instant messages !"
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- "the contents of - US Internet communications !"
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- "without going before a court - and seeking approval !"
- "Mark Klein - who had worked as an AT&T technician for 22 years - disclosed !"
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- "that he had witnessed - voice - and Internet traffic - of the USA !"
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- "had been "diverted" - through a "splitter cabinet" !"
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- "secure room 641A - in one of the company's - San Francisco facilities !"
- "the room had been accessible - only to technicians - from them !"
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- "director of national intelligence - Michael McConnell - had indicated !"
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- "during a - House Intelligence hearing !"
- "that the process had involved - US bulk communication - intercepted !"
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- "analyzed - and incorporated - into a database !"
TAO Unit - Foreign Policy: LINK ¤ FOREIGN POLICY
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- "a highly secretive unit - called the office of - tailored access operations !"
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- "or TAO - was a mystery - to many employees !"
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- "it required a special security clearance - gained access to the unit's - work spaces !"
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- "collected - intelligence information !"
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- "computers - and telecommunications systems !"
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- "copied messages and data traffic - passed within the email - and text-messaging systems !"
some People of the MI5 - the Guardian: LINK ¤ the GUARDIAN
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- "some people - of the British MI5 - warned of the GCHQ !"
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- "and criticized the - Internet program - "Tempora" !"
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- "they felt - they must not overstep - the mark with it !"
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- "the GCHQ - must not go too far ! - ( from the civil liberties - perspective ! )"
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- "these people - from MI5 have reservations - they thought !"
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- "this could be used - against them !"
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INTERNET FREEDOM - Wikipedia EN: LINK ¤ INTERNET FREEDOM
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- "Internet freedom encompasses - digital rights - freedom of information !!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "freedom from Internet censorship - and net neutrality !!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Tempora - der Standard: LINK ¤ der STANDARD
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- "Dokumente vom GCHQ - beschrieben ein Programm - "Operation Tempora" !"
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- "unterschiedslose Daten - aller Art !"
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- "die Dokumente beschrieben - 600 Millionen - Kommunikationsakte an einem Tag !"
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- "es gab 71.000 Schlüsselbegriffe - für die Datenmenge !"
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- "neben nationaler Sicherheit - war ein nebulöses ökonomisches Interesse !"
in Europa wurden Anzeigen eingereicht - der Standard: LINK ¤ der STANDARD
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- "in Europa wurden Anzeigen eingereicht - die europäischen Tochterfirmen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "von Facebook - Apple - Microsoft - Skype - und Yahoo !"
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- "dürfen nicht illegal Daten - europäischer User - an die USA weiterleiten !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "gegen Facebook und Apple - wurden in Irland - gegen Skype und Microsoft - in Luxemburg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "und gegen Yahoo - in Deutschland - Anzeigen eingebracht !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "aus Steuergründen - fallen die genannten Unternehmen - unter den europäischen Datenschutz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "nach EU-Recht - ist ein Export der Daten - in EU-Ausland - nur dann erlaubt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
- "wenn vom jeweiligen Unternehmen im Zielland - also zum Beispiel den USA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "ein "angemessenes Schutzniveau" - für das Grundrecht auf Datenschutz - garantiert werden kann !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "außerdem unterliegen die Unternehmen - in der EU - nicht der Verschwiegenheitspflicht !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"