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A month ago, on 1 June, the whistleblower Edward Snowden has begun to unpack: In a hotel room in Hong Kong, he met with British journalists and letting them in on the first secrets he carried on several laptops with them. Four days later, published the "Guardian", the first revelation - and since then hardly a day has gone by that there has been no news about Edward Snowden and his revelations.
The world learned of gigantic Spähprogrammen of American and British intelligence, of tapped fiber optic cables, bugs in EU missions and embassies. It came to light so much that it's easy to lose track of: What we have learned so far, and what follows?
Retention in the United States: Phone and Internet monitoring
Based on orders of United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisc), all costs incurred in the U.S. telephone connection data are collected.
The "Guardian" published an Fisc-decision , which is valid for three months and directed to the network operator Verizon. It is now clear that there are such decisions for most major telecommunications company in the U.S., presumably continuously since the latest in 2006.Furthermore, According to documents published the "Guardian", and Internet connections of U.S. citizens will be stored. By 2011, wholesale, confirmed what even officials of the Obama administration. Then the program was set - the "Guardian" but reported afterwards are still widely data collected.
In short, the United States operate in about what is retention in Europe.Not only with the providers, but directly at the NSA. And not time-limited but unlimited. These data are enormously informative: networks of relationships and movement profiles of people can be presented with it.Metadata also give answers to questions such as who, when speaking with a journalist, which companies are in conversation with each other - or that politician.
Documents:
- Report of the NSA inspector general about metadata query (2009)
- Rules for spying on U.S. citizens (2007)
What are the consequences?
Amazingly, the fact that their communication behavior is monitored more or less across the board, not to put undue frustration of the American people. Although outraged civil rights, but a large public outcry stopped by the unveiling of the programs so far.
Retention of metadata globally: tenses and Boundless informant
British intelligence agency GCHQ and the NSA, according to documents leaked to cooperate in a program called tenses. Accordingly, under which 200 are currently being tapped fiber optic cables that lead into the sea from the United Kingdom, presumably including the coming out of Germany TAT-14 cable. This content to be cached to three days, meta, so data connection up to 30 days.
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What consequences had so far?
Especially in Germany the debate about the actual extent of retention German communications is only broken loose right after the revelations.This is another aspect of the revelations for the individual is actually much scarier: The Prism program and the part of tenses , which not only refers to content, connections.
Storage of content globally: Prism and tenses
Behind the name Prism hides a Spähprogramm the NSA, which is apparently built since 2007 are Skim apparently including e-mails, photos, private messages and chats, according to leaked secret documents, the NSA has access to the server from Microsoft, Google, Facebook , Apple, Yahoo, Skype and other IT companies.
From new films that released the "Washington Post" recently as last weekend, it appears that Prism can also provide "real-time alerts" about it, if a target person in your own e-mail or a chat account logs. As part of the Tempora program content that will be diverted from fiber optic cables between stored up to three days. Presumably the programs go hand in hand: Prism provides neatly ordered details about target persons, tenses, the trawl from the can if necessary fishing any more knowledge about the person or their contacts.
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What are the consequences?
A monitor of this size allows spying of companies, politicians, authorities and the press - as well as just by all individuals. Before the eyes of the NSA thus remains practically nothing covered, that is happening on the Internet.
It also has economic implications: companies now worry about thesecurity of their data , the Bitkom to the future business cloud computing .
In a letter to the President of Ecuador , to the "Guardian" published, Snowden himself describes the dimensions as follows: The Government of the United States have built the biggest secret surveillance system in the world, and this global system concerns every human being in any way related technology come into contact.
Targeted monitoring of friendly nations
Der Spiegel reports in its latest issue, the American NSA or targeted EU building aushorcht - among other things with the help of bugs. In a secret of the secret paper from the year 2010, as it is the EU diplomatic missions in Washington to spying. Also, the internal computer network was infiltrated, so the Americans know both what is being discussed personally, as well as what is on the computers in e-mails and documents.
According to the "Guardian", the NSA tapped into the embassies of France, Italy and Greece in Washington, but also representatives of the UN. According to the report in the NSA documents a total of 38 monitoring objectives are mentioned, among them are Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India and Turkey.
Credits: spiegel online
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