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Ein neues Dokument des Informanten Edward Snowden untermauert den Vorwurf, dass der US-Geheimdienst NSA dank des Programms „XKeyscore“ praktisch unbegrenzten Zugriff auf Internetdaten  weltweit hat.

Microsoft has defended claims that detailed deep co-operation with the US government, including the circumvention of encryption in its Outlook.com email and access to its SkyDrive cloud storage service and Skype.

A statement issued by Microsoft denied it had provided blanket access of its products to NSA surveillance teams, and reiterated that it only responds to valid requests. "We have clear principles, which guide the response across our entire company to government demands for customer information for both law enforcement and national security issues," the statement said.

Google’s Android might be about to suffer behind the bamboo curtain after it was revealed US spooks at the NSA gave the company a hand with the code.

According to Quartz, the source code that Google used was contributed by the secretive National Security Agency. This means that each phone could come with its own special link to US espionage, and might explain why China is still not that happy with Google.

So while the US is busy banning Chinese phone companies because they might have links with Chinese intelligence, it appears that Google really does have NSA code under its bonnet.

An NSA researcher told Bloomberg Businessweek that Security Enhancements for Android is one of several projects the US spy agency contributes to open-source operating platforms.

Read more: http://news.techeye.net/mobile/nsa-helped-build-android-source-code#ixzz2Ynptuaud

In an interview, Edward Snowden accuses the National Security Agency of partnering with Germany and other governments in its spying activities.

Sacrebleu! The NSA isn't the only security agency to collect data.

Sacrebleu! The NSA isn’t the only security agency that’s collecting data. In fact, France’sPRISM-like program is going very strong withmillions of trillions of metadata elements stored in a Parisian basement, according to a report from French newspaper Le Monde.

The program targets phone communications, emails and data from Internet giants, such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! It is deemed illegal by the CNIL, the French data protection authority, but it is not as clear as it seems.

The European Parliament will vote — ironically of all days, on U.S. Independence Day on July 4 — whether existing data sharing agreements between the two continents should be suspended, following allegations that U.S.

She told her colleagues: "I do not want to hear the argument of national security anymore," she added. "Sorry, bugging the EU offices in Washington is a matter of 'national security'?

Blanket surveillance of millions of innocent citizens is a matter of 'national security'? I do not buy that anymore."

Several major websites are planning to take co-ordinated action in protest over US surveillance, with real-world demonstrations also planned.

Reddit, Mozilla and Wordpress are among the big web names backing the action, due to take place on Thursday.

Almost 100 events have been planned across the US.

An interactive map detailing their locations has been published.

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce the newest member of its Board of Directors: renowned security expert Bruce Schneier.

US-Behörden wollen Verschlüsselung zuvorkommen.

SSL-verschlüsselte Verbindungen sind Überwachern naturgemäß ein Dorn im Auge. Anscheinend versuchen deshalb jetzt die US-Behörden NSA und FBI, Provider zur Herausgabe von SSL-Keys zu veranlassen.

And the passwords are in plaintext, too. When you format an Android phone and set it up on first run, after you login to your Google account and restore your backup, it immediately connects to wifi using a saved password. There’s no sort of password hash that your Android phone could send your router to authenticate besides the password itself.

Oh, and Google is part of NSA’s Prism program. If an NSA analyst, or likely someone from CIA or even FBI (Prism is a “team sport”), asks Google for information about you, your house’s and office’s wifi passwords are likely included in that data. Without a warrant.

Auf 75 Prozent aller Android-Geräte werkelt von der NSA entwickelter Code. Während die Behörde beteuert, damit nur die Sicherheit des mobilen Betriebssystems verbessern zu wollen, wittern Kritiker bereits einen neuen Schnüffel-Skandal.

Der Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) arbeitet dem Whistleblower Edward Snowden zufolge bereits seit Jahren eng mit der NSA zusammen.

The Fourth of July saw a flurry of news related to the U.S. National Security Agency's intelligence-gathering efforts. Here's a rundown. Read this article by Edward Moyer on CNET News.

Vice-President Reding will participate today in a plenary debate in the European Parliament on the recent revelations about U.S. surveillance activities and surveillance programmes in various EU Member States.