US NSA Criminal Spying Angers Both Friend and Foe
Our enemies now have more reason to be our enemies and our friends now have more reasons not to be our freinds. Hopefully the Europe and Asia will develop search engines as operating systems that are impervious to the criminal spying of the NSA. I'll feel bad for the Americas who will lose their jobs to foreign competition but hopefully they will find employmet working for law abiding companies outside the US.
Below are links to news articles that explain in greater detail how the criminal spying by the NSA will hurt Americans economically and weaken our national security.
German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NSA spying
Germany is one of the most privacy conscious nations in the world, with data and privacy laws stronger than any other in the EU. And amid the NSA spying scandal, the country's top security chief has warned users to simply avoid U.S. companies. Will that work?Amid NSA spying scandal, the gloves are off for EU's justice chief
No longer is the EU standing for U.S. lobbying and policy pushing. The EU's Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding is back in the trenches. The gloves are off, and she's fighting back.EU to vote to suspend U.S. data sharing agreements, passenger records amid NSA spying scandal
The European Parliament will vote — ironically of all days, on U.S. Independence Day on July 4 — whether existing data sharing agreements between the two continents should be suspended, following allegations that U.S. intelligence spied on EU citizens.ZDNetGovWeek: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the NSA isn't spying on you
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that
there's been a whole lot of news about the NSA spying on regular
Americans. It's a long and winding story, and our team has been covering
it end-to-end.
U.K. Parliament wedges head in the privacy sand, plans move to cloud despite NSA spying scandal
Headstrong U.K. parliamentary IT fellows believe, in spite
of an ongoing scandal over NSA spying on non-U.S. citizens, a move to
the cloud is still a good idea. Here's why it's not.
How secure are the National Security Agency spy lines?
We know that there's no such thing as a completely secure
computer system. Is the NSA spy system the largest security risk of them
all?
U.K. government 'complicit' in NSA's PRISM spy program
According to a report, the U.K. government allegedly
bypassed international intelligence-sharing treaties by tapping into the
NSA's reported PRISM network.
Latest NSA leak details PRISM's bigger picture
Another leaked batch of top secret slides relating to the
U.S. National Security Agency's PRISM data collection program sheds
further light on how non-U.S. data is collected from various tech firms,
and how under law, U.S. data is filtered out — albeit not always.
ZDNetGovWeek: NSA chaos continues, big tech fights back
The ongoing chaos that is the NSA story continues. Google,
Microsoft, and Facebook try to get permission to tell the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. That doesn't work out so well, and all we get
are aggregated numbers and more aggravation.
Congressman denies report claiming NSA can listen to calls without warrants
CORRECTED: The politician who allegedly said the U.S.
National Security Agency can listen to phone calls of both U.S.
residents and foreign nationals without a court order debunks the
original report.
Anonymous leaks more NSA-related docs as Obama defends PRISM
UPDATED: Anonymous says that it leaked a bunch of government documents, but that might not exactly be the case.
The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism
A bombshell story published in the Washington Post this week
alleged that the NSA had enlisted nine tech giants, including
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple, in a massive program of online
spying. Now the story is unraveling, and the Post has quietly changed
key details. What went wrong?
ZDNetGovWeek: More NSA fun, tin foil hats, Google slapped in UK, and more
There's nothing more fun than government news, and nothing
that puts humanity's foibles in clearer light. This week, the NSA story
continues, we gently mock those wearing tin foil hats, Google's Street
View is once again in view, and all around the world, governments are
keeping us entertained (and worried).
EU 'assessing U.S. relationship' amid PRISM spying claims
In a letter obtained by ZDNet, the EU justice chief hints at
consequences to come for the U.S. government if European citizens were
targeted by the NSA's PRISM program.
FBI, NSA said to be secretly mining data from nine U.S. tech giants
UPDATED: Turns out U.S. government agencies might be tapping into into a lot more than just Verizon customer records.
Privacy is dead: So what if you friended the NSA?
The National Security Agency is better than Santa Claus. It
knows when you're sleeping. It knows when you're awake. It knows when
you've been bad or good. Not that most Internet users will care.
Obama's legacy: Domestic spying scandal that could prove greater than Watergate, WikiLeaks
U.S. President Barack Obama, just six months into his second
term, has his legacy set out for him: the greatest domestic spying
program the U.S. — perhaps the world — has ever seen.
NSA: All up in your privacy junk since 1952
The National Security Agency has been violating your privacy
for over 50 years. And you've just suddenly become aware of this now?
How did mainstream media get the NSA PRISM story so hopelessly wrong?
Last week's bombshell stories by The Guardian and The
Washington Post accused some of the biggest names in tech of willingly
working with the NSA to give up your data. It now appears that those
stories misread the technical details and got the story wrong.
Spying on people's emails, phone calls . . . and money
Most people aren't too concerned about having their phone records or emails monitored. Spying on their money is different.
