Wednesday 14 November 2012

the surveillance state


FBI's abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation


That the stars of America's national security establishment are being devoured by out-of-control surveillance is a form of sweet justice
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So not only did the FBI - again, all without any real evidence of a crime - trace the locations and identity of Broadwell and Petreaus, and read through Broadwell's emails (and possibly Petraeus'), but they also got their hands on and read through 20,000-30,000 pages of emails between Gen. Allen and Kelley.
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This is a surveillance state run amok. It also highlights how any remnants of internet anonymity have been all but obliterated by the union between the state and technology companies.
But, as unwarranted and invasive as this all is, there is some sweet justice in having the stars of America's national security state destroyed by the very surveillance system which they implemented and over which they preside. As Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier Foundation put it this morning: "Who knew the key to stopping the Surveillance State was to just wait until it got so big that it ate itself?"



Equally vivid is this 2007 chart from Privacy International, a group that monitors the surveillance policies of nations around the world. Each color represents the level of the nation's privacy and surveillance policies, with black being the most invasive and abusive ("Endemic Surveillance Societies") and blue being the least ("Consistently upholds human rights standards"):
surveillance
And the Obama administration has spent the last four years aggressively seeking to expand that Surveillance State, including by agitating for Congressional action to amend the Patriot Act to include Internet and browsing data among the records obtainable by the FBI without court approval and demanding legislation requiring that all Internet communications contain a government "backdoor" of surveillance



http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/petraeus-surveillance-state-fbi

This is a surveillance state that will now allow any photography even outside its apparently Diplomatic Missions but still believes that is has a right, along with a group of allies, to watch  the world  across the Full range of the whole communication Spectrum  . A right that cannot be challenged.

                                   
                                     NO PHOTOS : American Mission . Kathmandu. 

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