Tag: Edward Snowden

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Snowden' vindication: NSA mass surveillance program of US phones unlawful, and US intelligence leaders lied

  

  Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of US’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 09:55 UTC

  Conference in Buenos Aires: Snowden fears domestic intelligence will spread in US under Trump

  

  Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said on Monday, that Donald Trump's election may increase the intrusiveness of domestic intelligence gathering and warned that the democratic checks and balances were losing ground to authoritarianism.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2015 - 07:10 UTC

  Ambassador Castro thanks all those British who support the Malvinas Question

  

  Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro was a guest speaker at the Latin America conference held at the TUC headquarters, alongside other well known political and trade union figures.Her speech was met with a standing ovation from an audience of over 500 British attendants, whom she thanked for supporting Argentina on the Malvinas Question and in the litigation with the speculative or 'vulture' funds.

• Friday, November 6th 2015 - 18:56 UTC

  Falklands' maps and 'The Times' report manipulated in Argentine embassy pamphlets

  

  By Justin A Kuntz - There are many examples of the power of social media to quickly form and mould world opinion. One recent example is that of Dr Tim Hunt, a Nobel Prize winner, whose professional reputation was utterly destroyed on Twitter whilst airborne during a return flight from Korea. Increasingly social media is also seen as a crucial communication tool for politicians and opinion makers to master.

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Falklands: Cristina Fernandez met Snowden in Moscow to talk about UK spying on Argentina, reveals BAH

  

  President Cristina Fernandez met with former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden when she visited Moscow in April, according to the Buenos Aires Herald. Snowden became world famous when in 2013 when he revealed the extent of Washington’s global Internet and phone surveillance.

• Saturday, April 18th 2015 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentina again threatens Falklands' oil companies with legal actions, this time in London

  

  Argentina's Secretary of State for Malvinas Affairs, Daniel Filmus, defended Argentina´s sovereignty rights over the Falkland Islands in a speech he delivered in London condemning UK´s recent decision to increase its military presence in the South Atlantic, outlined the scope of the criminal lawsuit against oil companies 'illegally' operating in Falklands/Malvinas waters and warned of the environmental risks these activities entail.

• Friday, April 17th 2015 - 04:12 UTC

  Malvinas Secretary Filmus to talk about Falklands and oil in London

  

  Argentina's Secretary for Malvinas Islands Affairs, Daniel Filmus will be giving a conference on Friday in London on the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute with the UK and the current round of oil drilling offshore the Islands, in what Argentina considers its territory.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Falklands: Ambassador Castro refers ironically to Foreign Office summons

  

  Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro complained about being summoned to the Foreign Office over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute revealing she asked the British official if it was “an expression of British humor or a political paradox”, since the UK has failed to comply with international law for the last five decades.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2015 - 06:25 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas war documents declassified; Argentine Defense ministry has 30 days to make them available

  

  The Argentine government on Monday officially declassified secret files relating to the country's 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands. The Defense Ministry has 30 working days to establish a mechanism for members of the public to consult the records, according to a resolution published in the official gazette.

• Thursday, April 24th 2014 - 02:25 UTC

  Brazil sets the path for the future of a free, open and transparent internet

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said at the Wednesday opening of a gathering in Sao Paulo that no country can have “more weight than another” in governing cyberspace. Delegations from more than 85 countries are attending the NETMundial international conference which during two days will debate Internet issues and try to reach an agreement on a new oversight model.