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US to Cut Intelligence Cooperation With Germany If NSA Spy List Published

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Washington will consider decreasing cooperation between the US and
German intelligence services and transferring the assets of the US
National Security Agency (NSA) to neighboring Poland, if Germany makes
the list of the NSA surveillance targets in the country public, Bild
am Sonntag reported on Sunday.

BERLIN (Sputnik) ' In April, an espionage scandal erupted in Germany
when local media revealed that the intelligence agency BND had
provided technical assistance to the NSA in spying on targets inside
the country and throughout the European Union, including top political
figures and corporations.

Following the scandal, German Bundestag required the government to
reveal the list of spying targets so that the parliament's committee
could proceed with an inquiry. On Wednesday, the German government
proposed that only a special investigator would inspect the
controversial list and report to the parliament.

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German BND Reform Should Reduce Agency's Dependence on NSA ` Lawmaker

According to the newspaper, the United States strongly opposes even
partial disclosure of the targets, that were under surveillance of the
BND in cooperation with the NSA.

The disclosure, according to Washington, would breach the agreement on
cooperation between the security services, signed in 2002, and would
seriously damage relationship with Berlin, the newspaper said.

The recent developments followed the 2013 revelations by former NSA
contractor Edward Snowden, who disclosed that the US intelligence
agency had been collecting data on European targets for years.

BND is believed to have spied on some 800,000 IP addresses, phone
numbers and email addresses at the request of the NSA.

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Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.


First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.

It was designed to support Chrome’s new “OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission.

“Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room,” said Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate party founder, in a blog post. “Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by … an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.”

Related: Google to exclude 'revenge porn' from internet searches

The feature is installed by default as part of Google’s Chrome browser. But open source advocates are up in arms about it also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be “black box”, not part of the open source audit process.

“We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does,” said Falkvinge.

Opt-in or opt-out

Google responded to complaints via its developer boards. It said: “While we do download the hotword module on startup, we do not activate it unless you opt in to hotwording.”

However, reports from developers indicate otherwise.

After having identified Chromium as the culprit, developer Ofer Zelig said in a blog post: “While I was working I thought ‘I’m noticing that an LED goes on and off, on the corner of my eyesight [webcam]’. And after a few times when it just seemed weird, I sat to watch for it and saw it happening. Every few seconds or so.”

Google also blamed the Linux distribution Debian for downloading the non-open source component with Chromium automatically, rather than Google Chrome.

“The key here is that Chromium is not a Google product. We do not directly distribute it, or make any guarantees with respect to compliance with various open source policies,” Google developer mgiuca said.

Falkvinge countered Google’s explanations saying: “The default install will still wiretap your room without your consent, unless you opt out, and more importantly, know that you need to opt out, which is nowhere a reasonable requirement.” He says a hardware switch to disable the microphone and camera built into most computers is needed.

Voice search functions have become an accepted feature of modern smartphones, but their movement into the home through the smart TV, and now browser, have caused concerns over the possibility of being listened to within the home.

While most services require a user to opt in, privacy advocates have questioned whether their use, which requires sending voice recordings over the internet to company servers for processing, risks unintentionally exposing private conversations held within the home.

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CIA documents raise questions about spy agency's domestic data collection



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A man walks across the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the lobby of the Original Headquarters Building at the CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.© Alex Wong/Getty Images A man walks across the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the lobby of the Original Headquarters Building at the CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.

For more than two years, Americans have been reeling from revelations about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs. Now, newly release documents have raised questions about whether even more of Americans' data could be in the CIA’s hands, too.

Over the past two months, the American Civil Liberties Union has published 68 documents related to the CIA’s activities under Executive Order 12333, which governs foreign intelligence collection. The documents are part of a long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the ACLU and Yale Law School for information about government surveillance under EO 12333.

The widely discussed domestic surveillance programs – those permitted through the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act – both are operated under the supervision of Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. EO 12333 is run purely under the auspices of the executive branch.

President Reagan issued the order in 1981 and subsequent presidents have amended it several times since. It came to widespread public attention when former State Department official John Napier Tye penned a Washington Post Op-Ed that accused the NSA of using a loophole in the order to scoop up millions of Americans’ data and search it without a warrant.

"Almost any American who uses the Internet has had their data swept up in this," Mr. Tye said in an interview, referring to foreign mass surveillance programs that the NSA operates under EO 12333.

The NSA uses authority granted to it under that order to collect millions of Americans’ wholly domestic communications overseas, Tye said.

While many of the NSA's mass surveillance programs are technically "foreign," those programs predictably ingest large amounts of US data. That’s easy in a world where an e-mail between Boston and Atlanta is likely stored at data centers in Europe and Asia by tech companies that span the globe. A provision in the executive order lets the NSA store and search that "incidentally collected" American data.

"They collect everything, they store it all in a database, they search it all, and only if they want to use something do they run it through the minimization procedures and the US person check," Tye said.

Under 12333, the CIA can also collect intelligence on people and organizations in the US as long as it is "incidentally acquired information." That has the ACLU and other privacy advocates worried.

"We know that EO 12333 is one of the NSA’s most important surveillance authorities, and that the agency relies on EO 12333 to conduct bulk surveillance abroad that sweeps up vast quantities of Americans’ communications," says Ashley Gorski, a fellow at the ACLU's National Security Project. "Although we don’t know the extent of the CIA's involvement in these dragnets, the CIA is no stranger to bulk collection."

Indeed, The Wall Street Journal reported in January 2014 that the CIA maintains a database of information on Americans’ international money transfers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Three months later, it also revealed that the CIA provided technical support for a US Marshals program that tracked suspects by mounting devices that simulate cellphone towers onto low-flying airplanes – scanning thousands of Americans’ cellphones in the process.

One document – a memorandum of understanding between the CIA and the FBI – contains a section regulating how the CIA can target US persons that is almost entirely redacted – as is a section detailing when and how the FBI can share information with the CIA and all of a one-page document titled "Collection Rules."

What isn’t redacted in the new documents show that EO 12333 bars the CIA from carrying out electronic surveillance within the US. However, the agency can ask the FBI or another intelligence agency to carry out electronic surveillance inside American borders on its behalf. It can also use a "monitoring device" inside the US "under circumstances in which a warrant would not be required for law enforcement purposes."

It’s unclear what a "monitoring device" is and how using it differs from "electronic surveillance" – the definition is redacted.

The newly released documents also suggest that the CIA might not be following its own internal guidelines for handling data on Americans. According to a 2002 report from the CIA Inspector General, agency components aren’t properly applying rules about the retention and dissemination of data about US persons "because of a general and widespread lack of understanding of the rules."

The CIA did not responded to questions concerning the documents it released to the ACLU.

"By direction of the president in Executive Order 12333 of 1981 and in accordance with procedures approved by the Attorney General, the CIA is restricted in the collection of intelligence information directed against US citizens," the agency says on its website. "Collection is allowed only for an authorized intelligence purpose; for example, if there is a reason to believe that an individual is involved in espionage or international terrorist activities."

The independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is currently completing a report about CIA and NSA surveillance involving US persons under EO 12333. It plans to issue the report by the end of the year, according to a statement.



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Yet another senseless death.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-cincinnati-police-officer-indicted-murder-death-samuel-dubose-n400511

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Yet another senseless death.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...dubose-n400511

I'm not a fan of US Government, but the blacks in the US are very obnoxious, they think everybody owes them, they are lazy, and most jails are filled by them.

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I'm not a fan of US Government, but the blacks in the US are very obnoxious, they think everybody owes them, they are lazy, and most jails are filled by them.

(1) the jump from "I'm not a fan of US govt (TO) "but blacks are ... ??????
(2) I have lived with black people on a daily basis for prolonged periods in my 66 years. Some of my dearest friends are "black" people (LOL).
I have been across this country both east & west/noth & south. They got some pretty rough nieghborhoods throughout the country and plenty of docile ones too.
Your depiction of blacks in general is false and misleading. The majority are merely trying to scrape a life from an unfair world but are not mean spirited or quote; OBNOXIOUS ...riotous laughter = hahahaha hahahaha.
Get real ... In the ***** emmediate ***** past they "blacks" have been --- DENIED ---- education, respect, opportunity, decency, (and) you think they ain't gonna have some rough edges?????
As I could not go to the turc encampment and say the truth, so you couldn't go to a black community and say such utter nonsense.
Only over the Internet could you say such things, but not to the experienced.

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Rough edges??? man to me it seems blacks have more prejudice against whites than they do.

Also I have been to the south and seen the segregation, it is still there to some degree especially where hey live.

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Rough edges??? man to me it seems blacks have more prejudice against whites than they do.

Also I have been to the south and seen the segregation, it is still there to some degree especially where hey live.

Lots of hatred in the black community towards "whites" ------- taught------ to them by the *** CONDUCT*** of their white enslavors in the !!!!!!!! Emmediate !!!!!!! Preceding times to today.
Couple that with denial of education, opportunity, respect (!!!!!!!!!!!!!), decency, ETC...
Your second senntence shows part of the former outcome of the ******* ENSLAVEMENT ******* of a people.

Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh
And you question my brothers bitterness?

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Blacks in USA are indeed different then blacks elsewhere regarding their attitudes but it has far more to do with what they have been subjected to rather then their own personal or social inclinations and preferences. How do you keep family values when your family members can be sold off to the highest bidder? How can you remain objective with whites who have enslaved, used, abused, tortured, murdered, profiteered...at the expense of your people? We Armenians suffered a genocide which was horrible but happened in a short period of time. The survivors retained their cultural heritage, family values, and many other valuable aspects of their humanity. Blacks were not targeted for extinction but their ordeal lasted far longer and as a result important traits like the ones mentioned above were impossible to retain. Things like culture, values, ambitions, and many other things get destroyed and lost when it is impossible to hand them down from generation to generation. Most of the problems faced by the black communities in USA are not of their own making but are the result of hundreds of years of slavery and many decades of segregation. We Armenians (especially in diaspora) suffer from being victims still as do blacks but they were victimized far longer then us. Sure we lived under the rule of others under unfavorable conditions for centuries but that is far different then being a slave.

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Blacks in USA are indeed different then blacks elsewhere regarding their attitudes but it has far more to do with what they have been subjected to rather then their own personal or social inclinations and preferences. How do you keep family values when your family members can be sold off to the highest bidder? How can you remain objective with whites who have enslaved, used, abused, tortured, murdered, profiteered...at the expense of your people? We Armenians suffered a genocide which was horrible but happened in a short period of time. The survivors retained their cultural heritage, family values, and many other valuable aspects of their humanity. Blacks were not targeted for extinction but their ordeal lasted far longer and as a result important traits like the ones mentioned above were impossible to retain. Things like culture, values, ambitions, and many other things get destroyed and lost when it is impossible to hand them down from generation to generation. Most of the problems faced by the black communities in USA are not of their own making but are the result of hundreds of years of slavery and many decades of segregation. We Armenians (especially in diaspora) suffer from being victims still as do blacks but they were victimized far longer then us. Sure we lived under the rule of others under unfavorable conditions for centuries but that is far different then being a slave.

Please many people have suffered, our people included, doesn't give us a license to commit crimes, be lazy, and think the whole world owes us. US Blacks tend to be the most uneducated, criminal, unproductive members of society, suffering of their ancestors has nothing to do with legitimizing that.