US Citizen
US Citizens - the New York Times: LINK ¤ the NEW YORK TIMES
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- "documents from the NSA - described data !"
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- "on social connections - of US citizens !"
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- "the documents described conducted - graph analysis - on sets !"
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- "of communications metadata - without checked foreignness !"
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- "e-mail address - phone number - or other identifier !"
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- "the documents described - communications data - with material from public !"
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- "bank codes - insurance information - Facebook profiles !"
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- "passenger manifests - voter registration rolls - GPS location information !"
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- "property records - and unspecified tax data !"
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- "a memo - from the office of legal counsel - described a court ruling !"
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- "the data in question was - "being buffered for possible ingest" - later !"
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- "they were allowed - collected and retained - raw traffic !"
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- "which included both - metadata - and content !"
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- "about - "US persons" - for up to five years - online !"
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- "and for an additional 10 years - offline - for "historical searches" !"
Hayden - the Guardian: LINK ¤ the GUARDIAN
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- "former NSA chief Hayden - said in an arrogant tone of voice !"
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- "to congressmen - who are now criticising the interpretation - of the Patriot Act !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- ""why did they not read - the letter" ?!"
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- "sent to them in 2009 - and in 2011 - before the reauthorisation - of the Patriot Act !"
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- "which clearly said - that they collected - metadata !"
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- "on all phone calls - in the United States !"
Internet Backbone - techdirt: LINK ¤ TECHDIRT
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- "the Internet backbone - was a big question - and the NSA remained silent on this point !"
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- "in a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing - Dianne Feinstein admitted !"
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- "that they got emails - via "upstream" - collection methods !"
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- "upstream collection - meant Internet communications - such as e-mails !"
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- "from certain companies - that operated the Internet background !"
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- "i.e. the telecommunications lines - over which Internet traffic flows !"
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- "she said - "background" - but she clearly meant - "backbone" !"
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- "Mr. Levison - the owner of Lavabit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "an e-mail encryption service - where also Edward Snowden - has an e-mail account !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "stood firm - against investigators - with a court order !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "before he had complied - with narrowly targeted requests - involved customers - two dozen times !"
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- "but this time - they wanted more - the passwords !"
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- "encryption keys - and computer code !"
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- "( that would allow them untrammeled access - to the protected messages ! )"
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- "of all - his customers !"
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- "that - Mr. Levison said - was too much !"
MLK and Muhammad Ali - the Guardian: LINK ¤ the GUARDIAN
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- "released material from the NSA - from the late 1960s and 70s !"
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- "described the phone calls - and cable communications !"
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- "of two - serving senators !"
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- "alongside Martin Luther King - the leading civil rights figure !"
- "and Whitney Young - of the National Urban League !"
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- "Muhammad Ali - was on a watch list - since 1967 ! - ( after he spoke out - against Vietnam ! )"
German Novelist Trojanow - the Guardian: LINK ¤ the GUARDIAN
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- "Ilija Trojanow - a known novelist - had been on his way to a literary conference - in Denver !"
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- "was told at Salvador da Bahia airport - Brazil !"
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- "that US authorities - would not allow him - into the country !"
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- "Trojanow was told - that his case was - "special" !"
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- "but was given - no further explanation - for his rejection !"
Oversight - Chris Huhne: LINK ¤ the GUARDIAN
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- "Chris Huhne - a former British minister of energy - wrote !"
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- "that he received a letter - from a very senior civil servant - warning him !"
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- "not to reveal - in this column - any "privileged information" - acquired as a minister !"
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- "but he had a revelation - of another kind - to make !"
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- "the UK cabinet - was told nothing - about "Tempora" - or "Prism" !"
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- "he was also member of the - national security council !"
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- "( some ministers - heads of the secret and security services - GCHQ - and military ! )"
- "if anyone should had been briefed - on "Prism" - and "Tempora" - it should had been the NSC !"
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- "Huhne wants to inform - the public !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "that we need - better oversight - of the security services !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "the supervision - of our intelligence services !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "needs to be - updated !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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CITIZENSHIP in the US - Wikipedia EN: LINK ¤ US CITIZENSHIP
Verknüpfungen - Spiegel online: LINK ¤ SPIEGEL ONLINE
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- "Dokumente der NSA beschrieben - Verknüpfungen !"
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- "Informationen von Internet - und Telefondaten !"
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- "Bank - und Fluggastdaten !"
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- "Versicherungsinformationen - oder Aufenthaltsorte !"
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- "die Dokumente beschrieben - Personenprofile !"
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- "und eine Datenbank - mit dem Namen - "Mainway" !"
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- "Internet - und Telefon-Metadaten !"
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- "ein Budget beschrieb den Wunsch - 20 Milliarden "Ereignisse" !"
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- "täglich - binnen 60 Minuten zugänglich !"
Lavabit - Spiegel online: LINK ¤ SPIEGEL ONLINE
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- "vom verschlüsselten E-Mail Provider - Lavabit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "bei dem auch Edward Snowden - ein Konto hat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "hätte sich das FBI gewünscht - eine Art virtuellen Generalschlüssel !"
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- "zu allen 410.000 Kundenkonten - die Lavabit betreute !"
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- "diesem widersetzte sich - der Eigentümer Levison !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Provider - Spiegel online: LINK ¤ SPIEGEL ONLINE_________________________________________
- "Berichte beschrieben dass der BND - um Genehmigung ansuchte !"
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- "nicht nur um Kommunikationsleitungen - und Netzwerke - aus dem Ausland !"
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- "sondern auch sechs deutsche Internetprovider - 1&1 !"
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- "Freenet - Strato AG - QSC - Lambdanet - und Plusserver !"
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- "nach Einschätzung von Experten - waren diese Leitungen fast ausschließlich - innerdeutscher Datenverkehr !"
Interview mit James Bamford - die Presse: LINK ¤ die PRESSE
Frage: - "wer hatte Ihrer Erfahrung nach - "XKeyScore" und "Prism" - programmiert ?!"
- "es gab fliessende Übergänge - zwischen der NSA !"
- "und privaten - Datenfirmen !"
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- "Frank Church - der Kongressabgeordnete - der 1975 die nach ihm benannte NSA-Kommission - geleitet hatte !"
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- "verlangte - dass es aufgrund der Kapazitäten !"
- "eine bessere Kontrolle - der NSA - geben muss !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "Personen wie Nixon - oder George W. Bush - die sich wenig um das Recht scherten !"
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- "könnten auf dumme Gedanken - kommen !"
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- "man muss also dafür sorgen - und garantieren !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "dass die heutigen Kapazitäten - nicht falsch genutzt werden !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "es muss eine - bessere Aufsicht - geben !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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- "von der NSA - und den privaten Datenfirmen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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US STAATSBÜRGERSCHAFT - Wikipedia DE: LINK ¤ US STAATSBÜRGERSCHAFT