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Hartford Courant

09/25/13

South American nations are jointly exploring the creation of a communications system to curtail U.S. spying in the region, Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Wednesday. He said the idea was to set up a common platform to 'minimize risks of being spied on' and added the project was an outgrowth of the disclosures by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden on U.S. spying worldwide...

http://tinyurl.com/omqv3sz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Sen. Ron Wyden: NSA 'Repeatedly Deceived the American People'

By Glenn Greenwald

There are two members of that Committee who actually do take seriously its oversight mandate: Democrats Ron Wyden and Mark Udall.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36365.htm



Cutting the Cord: Brazil s Bold Plan to Combat the NSA

By Amar Toor

President Dilma Rousseff wants to route internet traffic away from the US, but experts say it will do little to deter American espionage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36371.htm



Metadata May Not Catch Many Terrorists, But It s Great at Busting Journalists' Sources

The National Security Agency says that the telephone metadata it collects on every American is essential for finding terrorists. And that s debatable. But this we know for sure: Metadata is very useful for tracking journalists and discovering their sources.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/09/24/metadata_may_not_catch_many_terrorists_but_its_great_at_busting_journalists_sources



NSA Head, General Keith Alexander, Wants 'All the Phone Records' of Americans

General Keith Alexander, who is head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, told Congress that there was no 'upper limit' as to how many telephone records the U.S. government wants to collect.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/war-terror/nsa-head-general-keith-alexander-wants-all-phone-records


From Information Clearing House

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NSA using massive datamining to 'graph' US citizens' social connections
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11685/

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The NSA Deserves a Permanent Shutdown
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/30-0

Target or Not, the NSA is Storing the Metadata of Millions
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/30-3



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