Tag: Edward Snowden

• Wednesday, April 23rd 2014 - 05:23 UTC

  Internet governance to be debated at the Net Mundial conference in Brazil

  

  US Commerce Department's decision to ease its governance over the Internet and open it up to other countries will be the subject of much debate in Brazil starting Wednesday. Government representatives from around the world are heading to Sao Paulo for Net Mundial, a two-day meeting to discuss how the future of Internet governance will be handled.

• Thursday, March 27th 2014 - 08:07 UTC

  Brazil lower house approves internet legislation to ensure privacy and neutrality

  

  The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved legislation meant to ensure the privacy of Internet users and to guarantee what is called “Internet neutrality”, that all content be treated equally by carriers. But it dropped a demand that all data on Brazilians be saved within the country.

• Wednesday, March 19th 2014 - 06:50 UTC

  End of privacy: US NSA can record all phone calls and play them back

  

  The US National Security Agency has created a surveillance system that is recording all the phone calls in an undisclosed foreign country, allowing it to play back any conversation up to 30 days later, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, February 19th 2014 - 04:41 UTC

  Analyst Snowden elected as students' delegate at the University of Glasgow

  

  Former NSA analyst Edward Snowden was elected as the students delegate in the Scottish University of Glasgow.

• Sunday, December 29th 2013 - 08:24 UTC

  One for the White House: NSA program keeping phone call records is 'lawful'

  

  A federal judge ruled that a National Security Agency program that collects records of millions of Americans' phone calls is lawful, calling it a “counter-punch” to terrorism that does not violate Americans' privacy rights.

• Friday, December 20th 2013 - 06:54 UTC

  Brazil and Germany, with UN support hit back at US cyber spying

  

  UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution aimed at protecting the right to privacy of internet users. The resolution was introduced by Brazil and Germany after allegations that the US had been eavesdropping on foreign leaders, including Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Germany's Angela Merkel.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2013 - 06:43 UTC

  First ruling against US government 'metadata' collection; Obama meets top technology companies leaders

  

  A US judge has ruled the National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone data may be unconstitutional. Federal District Judge Richard Leon said the electronic spy agency's practice was an “arbitrary invasion”.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2013 - 02:18 UTC

  US insists Obama remains open to a state visit from Brazil's Dilma Rousseff

  

  The new US ambassador in Brazil Liliana Ayalde said President Barack Obama is prepared to receive his Brazilian peer Dilma Rousseff. The statement comes weeks after a state visit planned for last October was suspended by Dilma in protest over revelations of extensive US spying of Brazilian communications including the mobiles of the Brazilian leader.

• Wednesday, December 11th 2013 - 22:56 UTC

  The humble Pope Francis named “Person of the Year” by Time magazine

  

  Time magazine named Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, crediting him with shifting the message of the Catholic Church while capturing the “imaginations of millions” who had become disillusioned with the Vatican.

• Friday, November 29th 2013 - 23:30 UTC

  Brazil will have its own national-made secure communications satellite by 2016

  

  Brazil's state-owned telecom provider Telebras signed a 560m dollar contract to deliver a satellite for secure communications on Thursday, following months of outrage over revelations of US cyber spying. A statement said a joint venture between Telebras and Embraer would deliver the geostationary satellite for strategic communications by late 2016.