United States Privacy Watchdog: NSA Spying Is Illegal
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The Republican Party has stood behind the NSA's spying ever since President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act in 2001, which legalized NSA surveillance on Americans without a warrant.
According to Time, the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted today at their annual winter meeting to pass a Resolution To Renounce The National Security Agencys Surveillance Program.
Ironically, several Republicans have called NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a "traitor" for revealing the same NSA programs that they renounced today.
When the New York Times first reported about NSA spying program under President Bush in 2005, Republicans voiced no opposition.
MSNBC reports that the RNC now wants an amendment to Section 215 of the Patriot Act to "make it clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity, phone records and correspondence electronic, physical, and otherwise of any person residing in the US is prohibited by law."
Sources: New York Times, MSNBC, Time, The Atlantic, Politico.com, The Hill
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The surveillance bombshells revealed by Edward Snowden have prompted many Americans to reconsider what they say and do online.
Hoping to seize upon amplified privacy concerns, a former National Security Agency architect launched a free service this week that allows users to easily encrypt their Gmail, Yahoo (YHOO) and Outlook emails.
Virtru, which has received $4 million in angel financing, emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday and has already attracted interest from a number of potential corporate customers, including big Wall Street banks.
There is mass concern about privacy. The issue is people dont know where to go to take action. Were trying to meet that need, said John Ackerly, a former White House official who co-founded Virtru with his brother Will.
While working at the NSA, Will Ackerly helped invent an encryption format that has become the standard for sharing sensitive data between U.S. intelligence agencies. Seeing the great demand to protect personal and commercial documents, the Ackerly brothers are now deploying that platform to a much wider audience.
Services like Virtru will probably give most commercial users a degree of security that only governments have enjoyed to this point, said Cedric Leighton, a former NSA official who does not know the Ackerly brothers.
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Virtru appears to be launching at a perfect time given the enormous amount of attention on government surveillance, which classified documents leaked by Snowden show is far greater than the American public realized.
According to a poll of 2,000 U.S. adults by Harris Interactive that Virtru commissioned, 73% of Americans online are concerned about the privacy of their email communications. But just 34% of online adults said they had taken steps like using a secure email provider or encrypted technologies.
While the Snowden revelations caused the country tremendous harm in terms of national security, John Ackerly said the issues are real and the balance of power has shifted away from the individual.
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Washington, Jan. 25 : Google's chairman Eric Schmidt has reportedly said that encryption is the key to many of Internet's modern-day problems, including opening up countries with strict censorship laws.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Schmidt said that encrypting everything could end censorships by governments like China's in a decade, which he thought was responsible for 80 to 85 percent of world's industrial espionage.
According to The Verge, the chairman said that use of encryption codes could also help thwart the alleged mass surveillance activities carried out by the governments' intelligence agencies.
Schmidt said that Google was attempting to strengthen its encryption so the world's governments won't be able to penetrate it and obtain private data.
He further said that he saw the eventual relaxation of Chinese censorship over time as the number of people using social media in the country continued to grow.
On the controversial mass surveillance activities carried out by the US' NSA, Schmidt chastised the government saying that 'because you can do this monitoring does not mean you should do this monitoring,' the report added.
--ANI (Posted on 26-01-2014)
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