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FIDH and LDH to file lawsuit in the Snowden Affair
FIDH and LDH file lawsuit in the Snowden Affair
The World | 11.07.2013 at 08:30
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the League of Human Rights (LDH) will file a complaint on Thursday in Paris, in the case of world espionage by the NSA, the American electronic communications agency.
Speaking live on France Info, a lawyer for the FIDH and LDH, Mr. Emmanuel Daoud, said that this particular complaint against X aimed to clarify the role that Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Paltak, Facebook, Youtube, Skype, AOL and Apple played in the Prism scandal.
According to him, "at different times," these companies "are likely to have made their servers available to the FBI and NSA for the U.S. intelligence agencies to penetrate them and have direct access to permanently to collect, siphon all that data of their Internet customers using the services of these companies."
Mr. Daoud suggests that they maybe "didn't tell the whole truth" when they affirmed they weren't aware of the Prism program. The French subsidiaries of these companies are also likely to be the subject of investigations, added Mr. Daoud.
On France Info, the attorney stated that they were likely to be charged with unauthorized "access, collection of personal data, invasion of privacy, violating the secrecy of electronic correspondence. " "We have not had such an infringement on individual freedoms, so massive and from a foreign state, that potentially affects all French citizens, all French Internet users when they use Google, Microsoft, Apple, Skype and other companies also covered," according to Mr. Daoud.
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http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/07/11/la-fidh-et-la-ldh-portent-plainte-dans-l-affaire-snowden_3445855_651865.html
The World | 11.07.2013 at 08:30
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the League of Human Rights (LDH) will file a complaint on Thursday in Paris, in the case of world espionage by the NSA, the American electronic communications agency.
Speaking live on France Info, a lawyer for the FIDH and LDH, Mr. Emmanuel Daoud, said that this particular complaint against X aimed to clarify the role that Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Paltak, Facebook, Youtube, Skype, AOL and Apple played in the Prism scandal.
According to him, "at different times," these companies "are likely to have made their servers available to the FBI and NSA for the U.S. intelligence agencies to penetrate them and have direct access to permanently to collect, siphon all that data of their Internet customers using the services of these companies."
Mr. Daoud suggests that they maybe "didn't tell the whole truth" when they affirmed they weren't aware of the Prism program. The French subsidiaries of these companies are also likely to be the subject of investigations, added Mr. Daoud.
On France Info, the attorney stated that they were likely to be charged with unauthorized "access, collection of personal data, invasion of privacy, violating the secrecy of electronic correspondence. " "We have not had such an infringement on individual freedoms, so massive and from a foreign state, that potentially affects all French citizens, all French Internet users when they use Google, Microsoft, Apple, Skype and other companies also covered," according to Mr. Daoud.
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http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/07/11/la-fidh-et-la-ldh-portent-plainte-dans-l-affaire-snowden_3445855_651865.html
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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is a non-governmental federation for human rights organizations. Founded in 1922, FIDH is the oldest international human rights organisation worldwide and today brings together 164 member organisations in over 100 countries.
FIDH is nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and independent of any government. Its core mandate is to promote respect for all the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.[3][4]
FIDH co-ordinates and supports the actions of its members and is their contact with intergovernmental organisations.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Federation_for_Human_Rights
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FIDH and LDH file lawsuit in the Snowden Affair
The World | 11.07.2013 at 08:30 • Updated 11.07.2013 at 9:27
After the measured reaction of the French government in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about the global espionage system set up by the American Security Agency (NSA), the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and the League of Human Rights (LDH) jointly filed a complaint against X, on Thursday, July 11, with the public prosecutor of Paris. Their lawsuit points to several offenses: unauthorized access to automated data processing systems, illegal collection of personal data, invasion of privacy, and interference with the secrecy of electronic correspondence. The wide range is as a result of the extent of the former NSA technician's allegations relayed by the Guardian, the Washington Post and Der Spiegel.
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Using a system called Prism, the two U.S. agencies can scan communications exchanged on Facebook, Google or Microsoft. Affirmations contested by the corporations concerned, which didn't deny their occasional collaboration with the NSA within a legal framework. In late June, we learned that the United States, via the NSA, had engaged in espionage on its allies, including the Europeans. Several embassies in Washington and some protected European Union sites were bugged.
For Patrick Baudouin, lawyer and honorary president of the FIDH, "these charges, of exceptional gravity, did not elicit adequate reactions. Since the Patriot Act in 2001, there have been constant abuses in the name of the fight against terrorism. We threw away all the safeguards that democracies have, when it comes to investigating citizens, by exploiting fear for demagogic ends. The use of drones, in contravention to international law (...), is based on the same principle." Michel Tubiana, historical lawyer for LDH, says he same thing. "You can not with impunity, in an imperial manner, project your laws beyond your borders without being held to account."
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For now, this initiative of the FIDH and LDH seems like an isolated effort. Only the association "Europe versus Facebook" made up of mostly Austrian students, announced it has filed a series of complaints against the European subsidiaries of Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo! for their alleged cooperation with the NSA in Prism program. After the revelations of Le Monde about the French Big Brother, a complaint against the practices of the DGSE, outside any legal framework, is being studied by the organizations defending human rights.
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http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/07/11/la-fidh-et-la-ldh-portent-plainte-dans-l-affaire-snowden_3445855_651865.html?utm_source=Kazi+Media+Group&utm_medium=Kazi+Media+Group
The World | 11.07.2013 at 08:30 • Updated 11.07.2013 at 9:27
After the measured reaction of the French government in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about the global espionage system set up by the American Security Agency (NSA), the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and the League of Human Rights (LDH) jointly filed a complaint against X, on Thursday, July 11, with the public prosecutor of Paris. Their lawsuit points to several offenses: unauthorized access to automated data processing systems, illegal collection of personal data, invasion of privacy, and interference with the secrecy of electronic correspondence. The wide range is as a result of the extent of the former NSA technician's allegations relayed by the Guardian, the Washington Post and Der Spiegel.
...
Using a system called Prism, the two U.S. agencies can scan communications exchanged on Facebook, Google or Microsoft. Affirmations contested by the corporations concerned, which didn't deny their occasional collaboration with the NSA within a legal framework. In late June, we learned that the United States, via the NSA, had engaged in espionage on its allies, including the Europeans. Several embassies in Washington and some protected European Union sites were bugged.
For Patrick Baudouin, lawyer and honorary president of the FIDH, "these charges, of exceptional gravity, did not elicit adequate reactions. Since the Patriot Act in 2001, there have been constant abuses in the name of the fight against terrorism. We threw away all the safeguards that democracies have, when it comes to investigating citizens, by exploiting fear for demagogic ends. The use of drones, in contravention to international law (...), is based on the same principle." Michel Tubiana, historical lawyer for LDH, says he same thing. "You can not with impunity, in an imperial manner, project your laws beyond your borders without being held to account."
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For now, this initiative of the FIDH and LDH seems like an isolated effort. Only the association "Europe versus Facebook" made up of mostly Austrian students, announced it has filed a series of complaints against the European subsidiaries of Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo! for their alleged cooperation with the NSA in Prism program. After the revelations of Le Monde about the French Big Brother, a complaint against the practices of the DGSE, outside any legal framework, is being studied by the organizations defending human rights.
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http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/07/11/la-fidh-et-la-ldh-portent-plainte-dans-l-affaire-snowden_3445855_651865.html?utm_source=Kazi+Media+Group&utm_medium=Kazi+Media+Group
