"Revealed: FBI kept files on peaceful climate change protesters" - Adam Federman

A protest at a BP plant in Indiana landed three sixtysomething campaigners in a federal surveillance report, documents released to the Guardian under the Freedom on Information Act show

"TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING PLANS FOR PRIVATE SPIES TO COUNTER “DEEP STATE” ENEMIES"

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials and others familiar with the proposals. The sources say the plans have been pitched to the White House as a means of countering “deep state” enemies in the intelligence community seeking to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency.

"Mata Hari uncovered" - Julie Wheelwright

Dancer, courtesan, spy: on the centenary of her execution, how much do we really know about the woman behind the legend?

"WikiLeaks publishes 'biggest ever leak of secret CIA documents'"

The 8,761 documents published by WikiLeaks focus mainly on techniques for hacking and surveillance

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"HOW PETER THIEL’S PALANTIR HELPED THE NSA SPY ON THE WHOLE WORLD" - Sam Biddle

DONALD TRUMP HAS inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own. But the outlook is even worse considering Trump’s vast preference for private sector expertise and new strategic friendship with Silicon Valley billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose controversial (and opaque) company Palantir has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and exploit information of any kind. Thiel represents a perfect nexus of government clout with the kind of corporate swagger Trump loves. The Intercept can now reveal that Palantir has worked for years to boost the global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners, and was in fact co-created with American spies.

"Comment la CIA voit-elle le monde en 2035 ?" - Aude Massiot et Estelle Pattée (Assustador)

L'agence de renseignements américaine a publié jeudi, en français, son étude prospective sur l'état du monde dans vingt ans.

"The Raid - In Bulgled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner"

TONY FULLMAN IS a middle-aged former tax man and a pro-democracy activist. But four years ago, a botched operation launched by New Zealand spies meant he suddenly found himself deemed a potential terrorist — his passport was revoked, his home was raided, and he was placed on a top-secret National Security Agency surveillance list.

"The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman"

Otto Skorzeny, one of the Mossad’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler’s favorites.

"Espionnage Élysée"

Today, 23 June 2015, WikiLeaks began publishing "Espionnage Élysée", a collection of TOP SECRET intelligence reports and technical documents from the US National Security Agency (NSA) concerning targeting and signals intelligence intercepts of the communications of high-level officials from successive French governments over the last ten years.

"Six ways your tech is spying on you – and how to turn it off"

So, your TV might be spying on you. It probably just wanted to join in with the rest of the technology in your life, because let’s face it: if you live in the 21st century you’re probably monitored by half a dozen companies from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep. (And if you wear a sleep tracker, it doesn’t even stop then.)Compared with some of the technology that keeps a beady eye fixed on you, the news that Samsung’s privacy policy warns customers not to discuss sensitive information in front of their smart TVs is actually fairly tame. The warning relates to a voice-recognition feature that has to be explicitly invoked, and which only begins transmitting data when you say the activation phrase “hi, TV”.But other tech that spies on you might not be so genteel. The uncomfortable fact is that your personal data is just another way to pay for products and services these days.The adage “if you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold” was coined in 2010, a lifetime ago in web terms, but it’s as true today as it always has been. What’s changed now, though, is the number of ways companies are discovering to make sharing our data with them not something we grudgingly accept, but enthusiastically embrace. Sure, they tell us, you can turn it off. But do you really want to?

"Exclusive: NSA, FBI, DIA Sued over Refusal to Disclose U.S. Role in Imprisonment of Nelson Mandela"

"A new day at the NSA" - By Doyle McManus

Individually, the concrete steps President Obama announced Friday toward reforming the National Security Agency's surveillance programs were modest. Taken together, though, they signal the end of an era of unfettered escalation in U.S. intelligence-gathering.

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"THE DAY WE FIGHT BACK"

Governments worldwide need to know that mass surveillance, like that conducted by the NSA, is always a violation of our inalienable human rights.

Over the past year, more than 360 organizations in over 70 countries have come together to support the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance.

These thirteen Principles establish the human rights obligations of any government conducting surveillance. They are the core of an international movement to compel all states to stop the mass spying of the innocent. The Principles are already being used in national campaigns and international pressure to reign in spies including the NSA.

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"Beyond NSA Spying: The Transatlantic Culture Gap"

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The Guardian op-ed by Stephan Richter and Jan Philipp Albrecht: What can be done to deter U.S. spying in Europe?

"A STAND FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE"

Mais de 500 autores do mundo inteiro, incluindo 5 prémios Nobel, condenam a vigilância de estado revelada por Edward Snowden, alertam para a destruição da democracia levada a cabo pelas agências de espionagem e apelam a uma nova carta internacional que proteja os direitos humanos na era digital:

In recent months, the extent of mass surveillance has become common knowledge. With a few clicks of the mouse the state can access your mobile device, your e-mail, your social networking and Internet searches. It can follow your political leanings and activities and, in partnership with Internet corporations, it collects and stores you data, and can thus predict your consumption and behaviour.

The basic pillar of democracy is the inviolable integrity of the individual. Human integrity extends beyond the physical body. In their thoughts and in their personal environments and communications, all humans have the right to remain unobserved and unmolested.

This fundamental human right has been rendered null and void through abuse of technological developments by states and corporations for mass surveillance purposes.

A person under surveillance is no longer free; a society under surveillance is no longer a democracy. To maintain any validity, our democratic rights must apply in virtual as in real space.

* Surveillance violates the private sphere and compromises freedom of thought and opinion.

* Mass surveillance treats every citizen as a potential subject. It overturns one of our historical triumphs, the presumption of innocence.

* Surveillance is theft. This data is not public property: it belongs to us. When it is used to predict our behaviour, we are robbed of something else: the principle of free will crucial to democratic liberty.

WE DEMAND THE RIGHT for all people to determine, as democratic citizens, to what extent their personal data may be legally collected, stored and processed, and by whom; to obtain information on where their data is stored and how it is being used; to obtain the deletion of their data if it has been illegally collected and stored.

WE CALL ON ALL STATES AND CORPORATIONS to respect these rights.

WE CALL ON THE UNITED NATIONS to acknowledge the central importance of protecting civil rights in the digital age, and to create anInternational Bill of Digital Rights.

WE CALL ON GOVERNMENTS to sign and adhere to such a convention.

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"A ilha dos espiões"

Cartoon de Len

Por causa da sua situação estratégica, Chipre é desde há muito tempo um importante local de espionagem. É a partir dali que, atualmente, agentes britânicos e americanos, disfarçados de turistas, intercetam as comunicações entre o Médio Oriente e a Europa. Uma investigação baseada nos documentos de Edward Snowden.

Assim vai a Europa! - "Germany calls in Britain's ambassador to demand explanation over 'secret Berlin listening post'"

Foreign minister summons ambassador to provide explanation after report in The Independent

"Cabe à Europa criar uma Web 3.0 responsável"

Cartoon de Tom Janssen

Depois das escutas da NSA e da recolha maciça de dados de utilizadores pelos gigantes da Internet, cabe à UE lançar as bases do futuro da Web. É a única entidade que pode garantir um ambiente “responsável e comum” onde cada um geraria as informações que lhe dizem respeito, estima um filósofo francês.

Edward Snowden wins Sam Adams award

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Dossier Snowden - "Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S."

Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago. After the New York Times had been enjoined from publishing the Pentagon Papers — on June 15, 1971, the first prior restraint on a newspaper in U.S. history — and I had given another copy to The Post (which would also be enjoined), I went underground with my wife, Patricia, for 13 days. My purpose (quite like Snowden’s in flying to Hong Kong) was to elude surveillance while I was arranging — with the crucial help of a number of others, still unknown to the FBI — to distribute the Pentagon Papers sequentially to 17 other newspapers, in the face of two more injunctions. The last three days of that period was in defiance of an arrest order: I was, like Snowden now, a “fugitive from justice.”