Browsing Tag: Spying

Brazil and Germany today joined forces to press for the adoption of a U.N. General Resolution that promotes the right of privacy on the internet, marking the first major international effort to restrain the National Security Agency's intrusions into the online communications of foreigners, according to diplomatic sources familiar with the push.

“Thirty years is a long period and precious time for each and every individual,” he said. “Forget about Surjeet. Think from the angle of humanity and being sensible. His life has almost, you can say, been spent in jail. What a pity it is?

For the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration—the NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas.