NSA spying, TPPA and you

Imagine you playing an online game with a total stranger who happens to be a terror suspect, and your name will appear as a friend of the suspect in the NSA or other western agency records.

New revelations of Edward Snowden, have been published jointly by the Guardian, the New York Times and ProPublica, that British intelligence and security organisation GCHQ has used mobile apps like Angry Birds or Google Maps to spy on users and basically pry on the personal data of users.

Imagine you playing an online game with a total stranger who happens to be a terror suspect, and your name will appear as a friend of the suspect in the NSA or other western agency records.

With the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) being sold as plus for the Malaysians and other Southeast Asian nations, here comes the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States and a shoddy agreement with tech giants.

How does the TPPA and the NSA collection of private and personal datas affect your online life?

The ongoing monitoring of mobile applications is rife with revelations from Zdnet.fr that the NSA has struck a deal with the tech giants Facebook, Apple, Google, Yahoo and who knows Linkedin and Twitter too maybe in cohorts to enable them to communicate more transparency in government applications.

In accordance with the directives of the President Barack Obama, in his speech of Jan 17, and in accordance with the wishes expressed last December, they (tech giants) will publish the number of requests for access to personal information of their users, the number of orders of the competent court, etc., Zdnet.fr wrote.

While I believe that many people have nothing to hide, particularly those struggling against such giant trade deals like the secretive, shadowy TPPA, and against control of the Internet amongst others, the tech companies willingness to disclose personal information is a dangerous violation of peoples rights.

It is to be remembered that joining these tech companies online, and using their apparatus such as the mobile phones and so on, came with the express indication that these companies will not reveal your email or personal details to anyone.

In this swift violation, and disrespect of their guarantees to the end users, the tech giants have taken a step further in allowing the NSA to have all the details they want at any time even if the person they are scrutinizing is not on any danger list.

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NSA spying, TPPA and you