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NSA tool collects "Nearly Everything You Do On the Internet"; Targeting Journalists; What Google Knows About You; Warrantless Cellphone…
August 2, 2013 0

NSA tool collects "Nearly Everything You Do On the Internet"; Targeting Journalists; What Google Knows About You; Warrantless Cellphone…

By News Desk

• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet. XKeyscore, the documents boast, is the NSA’s "widest reaching" system developing intelligence from computer networks – what the agency calls Digital Network Intelligence (DNI).

Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) – Threat To National Sovereignty
July 9, 2013 0

Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) – Threat To National Sovereignty

By News Desk

Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) – Threat To National Sovereignty by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar  Editor’s Note : The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement represents the economic arm of the US pivot to the Asia-Pacific region, and threatens to undermine the sovereignty of participating countries. Washington lacks a fundamental economic vision, and as its influence in the world continues to wane, the TPP is an attempt to harness the growth and dynamism of South East Asia’s tiger cub economies as a counterweight to China’s influence in the region.