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Here's the NSA, part of the United States military, doing the bidding of large international corporations who howl about intellectual property. Not military threats, not terrorism, not violent crime, perhaps not even a crime at all:
A blog postby New Zealand-based Keith Ng http://publicaddress.net/onpoint/ich-bin-ein-cyberpunk/ spills the beans. New Zealand's intelligence agency is the GCSB, the Government Communications Security Bureau. Ng reports, based on a redacted government document, how GCSB worked with NSA's PRISM program.
Once the GCSB's lawyer had a look at it, the Police provided a list of "selectors" to the GCSB (we now know from the PRISM documents that "selectors" is the term used to describe the search terms used to make PRISM requests):
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The email from the GCSB then described "traffic volume from these selectors": i.e. This secret system was capturing live traffic.
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What does this mean? It means that GCSB assistance is NSA assistance. It means that government agencies can tap into these powers as part of bread-and-butter law enforcement.
So the PRISM program is not only collecting information on terrorists, it's collecting information used in a criminal investigation of copyright violation. True, it was "overseas", but it was a US long-arm operation against a business not located in the US with the help of a compliant government.
MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/23/1233379/-NSA-used-against-Kim-Dotcom-in-NZ-copyright-battle
grasswire
(50,130 posts)drip, drip, drip
frylock
(34,825 posts)Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)The NSA "isn't doing it", we are farming it out to contractors and other countries. wink wink
Weasel words from weasel governments.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)and the vendors also sell intel to foreign governments and biz intel to companies. THAT's proof of fascism.
BadGimp
(4,012 posts)This is what happens when we create a $60billion a year private contractor slush fund... ABUSE and impending corporate domination of law enforcement and soon everything else..
Sweet Jesus help us!