Tag: US National Security Agency

• Friday, August 9th 2013 - 04:06 UTC

  Der Spiegel exposes US and German spy agencies work hand in hand

  

  Code name Bad Aibling. The US spy agency according to US whistle blower Snowden, worked hand in hand with Germans spy agency BND (BundesNachrichtenDiens) This is the result of an investigation by one of Germany's oldest and most established magazine “Der Spiegel”

• Monday, August 5th 2013 - 18:14 UTC

  Mercosur complains to Ban Ki-moon on US global espionage and EU affront towards Bolivia’s Evo Morales

  

  Mercosur foreign ministers warned UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the serious implications which the United States global espionage system represents for the international community, during a Monday midday meeting at the UN headquarters in New York.

• Friday, August 2nd 2013 - 02:51 UTC

  US ‘extremely disappointed’ with Russian asylum to leaker Snowden

  

  White House officials say they are “extremely disappointed” by Russia’s decision to grant asylum for one year to Edward Snowden, who is accused of leaking U.S. government secrets. Officials are deciding how to respond.

• Saturday, July 13th 2013 - 13:34 UTC

  Mercosur blasts EU countries over Morales incident and condemn US electronic surveillance

  

  Mercosur leaders agreed on Friday to call home for consultation their ambassadors to Spain, France, Italy and Portugal to protest last week's forced diversion of the Bolivian president's aircraft. They also strongly defended their right to offer asylum Friday, venting anger at claims of US spying in the region while intelligence leaker Edward Snowden's fate hangs in the balance.

• Friday, July 12th 2013 - 08:28 UTC

  Despite US ‘spying’ Rousseff’s state visit to Washington is still on, says Brazilian congress

  

  Disclosures alleging that the United States has collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations in Brazil will not affect Brazil-U.S. relations, said the head of the country’s joint congressional committee on intelligence.

• Friday, June 7th 2013 - 07:43 UTC

  US spy chief admits collecting internet information but only targets ‘non-US persons’

  

  US spy chief James Clapper has admitted the government collects communications from internet firms, but says the policy only targets “non-US persons”. The director of national intelligence was responding to articles about an alleged secret programme, Prism.

• Friday, June 7th 2013 - 03:25 UTC

  Major tech companies involved in US controversy over ‘security vs privacy’

  

  Major tech companies including Apple Inc, Google and Facebook Inc said they do not provide any government agency with “direct access” to their servers, contradicting a Washington Post report that they have granted such access under a classified data collection program.