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FBI Moves to Broaden Hacking Authority - Google Says it Poses “Monumental Constitutional Concern”
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg
FBI Moves to Broaden Hacking Authority – Google Says it Poses “Monumental Constitutional Concern”
A judicial advisory panel Monday quietly approved a rule change that will broaden the FBI’s hacking authority despite fears raised by Google that the amended language represents a “monumental” constitutional concern.
The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules voted 11-1 to modify an arcane federal rule to allow judges more flexibility in how they approve search warrants for electronic data, according to a Justice Department spokesman.
The FBI wants the expanded authority, which would allow it to more easily infiltrate computer networks to install malicious tracking software.
– From the National Review article: FBI’s Plan to Expand Hacking Power Advances Despite Privacy Fears
If we’ve learned anything about the FBI over the past several years, it’s that the agency is extraordinarily skilled at finding mentally ill, dead-broke young Muslims and convincing them to become terrorists and by taking part in FBI created and funded terrorist plots.
This has been a topic I’ve covered on several occasions here at Liberty Blitzkrieg, with the latest example being the story of Christopher Lee Cornell, highlighted in the post: Manufactured Terrorism – U.S. Officials Claim Credit for Stopping Another Terror Attack Created by the FBI. Here’s an excerpt:
Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation, at the center of which is a government informant. In these cases, the informants — who work for money or are seeking leniency on criminal charges of their own — have crossed the line from merely observing potential criminal behavior to encouraging and assisting people to participate in plots that are largely scripted by the FBI itself. Under the FBI’s guiding hand, the informants provide the weapons, suggest the targets and even initiate the inflammatory political rhetoric that later elevates the charges to the level of terrorism.
Before I get into the meat of this post concerning the FBI’s latest power grab, let’s take a look at yet another example of the FBI planning and then stopping one of its own attacks. From the Intercept:
Osmakac was 25 years old on January 7, 2012, when he filmed what the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice would later call a “martyrdom video.” He was also broke and struggling with mental illness.
Osmakac was the target of an elaborately orchestrated FBI sting that involved a paid informant, as well as FBI agents and support staff working on the setup for more than three months. The FBI provided all of the weapons seen in Osmakac’s martyrdom video. The bureau also gave Osmakac the car bomb he allegedly planned to detonate, and even money for a taxi so he could get to where the FBI needed him to go. Osmakac was a deeply disturbed young man, according to several of the psychiatrists and psychologists who examined him before trial. He became a “terrorist” only after the FBI provided the means, opportunity and final prodding necessary to make him one.
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI has arrested dozens of young men like Osmakac in controversial counterterrorism stings. One recent case involved a rudderless 20-year-old in Cincinnati, Ohio, named Christopher Cornell, who conspired with an FBI informant — seeking “favorable treatment” for his own “criminal exposure” — in a harebrained plot to build pipe bombs and attack Capitol Hill. And just last month, on February 25, the FBI arrested and charged two Brooklyn men for plotting, with the aid of a paid informant, to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State. The likelihood that the men would have stepped foot in Syria of their own accord seems low; only after they met the informant, who helped with travel applications and other hurdles, did their planning take shape.
Informant-led sting operations are central to the FBI’s counterterrorism program. Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations. Of those cases, an informant or FBI undercover operative led 49 defendants in their terrorism plots, similar to the way Osmakac was led in his.
In these cases, the FBI says paid informants and undercover agents are foiling attacks before they occur. But the evidence suggests — and a recent Human Rights Watch report on the subject illustrates — that the FBI isn’t always nabbing would-be terrorists so much as setting up mentally ill or economically desperate people to commit crimes they could never have accomplished on their own.
On January 7, 2012, after the martyrdom video was recorded, Amir and others poked fun at Osmakac and the little movie the FBI had helped him produce.
“When he was putting stuff on, he acted like he was nervous,” one of the speakers tells Amir. “He kept backing away …”
“Oh, yeah, you could tell,” yet another person chimes in. “He was all like, like a, like a six-year-old in a toy store.”
In other recorded conservations, Richard Worms, the FBI squad supervisor, describes Osmakac as a “retarded fool” who doesn’t have “a pot to piss in.” The agents talk about the prosecutors’ eagerness for a “Hollywood ending” for their sting. They refer to Osmakac’s targets as “wishy-washy,” and his terrorist ambitions as a “pipe-dream scenario.” The transcripts show FBI agents struggled to put $500 in Osmakac’s hands so he could make a down payment on the weapons — something the Justice Department insisted on to demonstrate Osmakac’s capacity for and commitment to terrorism.
“The money represents he’s willing to do it, because if we can’t show him killing, we can show him giving money,” FBI Special Agent Taylor Reed explains in one conversation.
Since this so-called terrorist didn’t have the money to buy anything, the FBI actually went so far as to give the money to one of their informants, who then passed it on to Osmakac.
These transcripts were never supposed to be revealed in their entirety. The government argued that their release could harm the U.S. government by revealing “law enforcement investigative strategy and methods.” U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli not only sealed the transcripts, but also placed them under a protective order.
“If my brother was truly part of a plot to kill people, I’d be the first one in line to condemn him,” Osmakac’s brother Avni says. “But my brother was mentally ill. We were trying to get him help. The FBI got to him first.”
With stage set, let’s now take a look at the FBI’s latest unconstitutional power grab. The National Journal reports that:
March 16, 2015 A judicial advisory panel Monday quietly approved a rule change that will broaden the FBI’s hacking authority despite fears raised by Google that the amended language represents a “monumental” constitutional concern.
The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules voted 11-1 to modify an arcane federal rule to allow judges more flexibility in how they approve search warrants for electronic data, according to a Justice Department spokesman.
The FBI wants the expanded authority, which would allow it to more easily infiltrate computer networks to install malicious tracking software. This way, investigators can better monitor suspected criminals who use technology to conceal their identity.
But the plan has been widely opposed by privacy advocates, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as some technologists, who say it amounts to a substantial rewriting of the rule and not just a procedural tweak. Such a change could threaten the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizures, they warn, and possibly allow the FBI to violate the sovereignty of foreign nations. The rule change also could let the agency simultaneously target millions of computers at once, even potentially those belonging to users who aren’t suspected of any wrongdoing.
Google weighed in last month with public comments that warned that the tweak “raises a number of monumental and highly complex constitutional, legal and geopolitical concerns that should be left to Congress to decide.”
In an unusual move, Justice Department lawyers rebutted Google’s concerns, saying the search giant was misreading the proposal and that it would not result in any search or seizures not “already permitted under current law.”
Here’s the “we already do it” defense. This is becoming more and more common.
The judicial advisory committee’s vote is only the first of several stamps of approval required within the federal judicial branch before the the rule change can formally take place—a process that will likely take over a year. The proposal is now subject to review by the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which normally can approve amendments at its June meeting. The Judicial Conference is next in line to approve the rule, a move that would likely occur in September.
The Supreme Court would have until May 1, 2016 to review and accept the amendment, which Congress would then have seven months to reject, modify or defer. Absent any congressional action, the rule would take place on Dec. 1, 2016.
“Although presented as a minor procedural update, the proposal threatens to expand the government’s ability to use malware and so-called ‘zero-day exploits’ without imposing necessary protections,” said ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler in a statement. “The current proposal fails to strike the right balance between safeguarding privacy and Internet security and allowing the government to investigate crimes.”
Never let the Constitution get in the way of an authoritarian power grab.

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Hack this bitchez.
To quote Hitlery...
"We are the Government!"
Fuck off, serfs! We do what we want!
well if anyone would recognize a monumental constitutional concern it would be Google
suprise suprise. .. well.. do not do anything shady on the internet.. problem solved.. but i get the points
google has constitutional concerns? HA. Im sure they can just use their new ranking system that ranks websites based on their 'truthfulness' during searches to make all this go away. fuck google, and all the rest of the tech giants. They are holding hands with the govt anyway, what the fuck do they care?
If Google were for the privacy of it's customers it would simply ignore the FBI and lock them out of their services.
Google is balls deep in this rotten whore and this is nothing but a bible in a whorehouse so they can pretend they are not.
Regards,
Cooter
Like ogle gives a tinkers fuck.
Given Google's CIA NSA connections, this is merely staged opposition.
We love the hacking! Hack your mom! Hack her to pieces!
Goojes to fbies: "We're gonna complain. It's for the milk cows. Ignore it."
You cannot save youself Cooter, without first walking through the fire.
Regards and best of luck.
You are the minus to my one. Or is it the one to my minus.
My chair is against the wall.
Regards,
Cooter
EDIT: That Tom T. Hall link over at the other thread was pretty sweet. Good stuff. I suppose we can piss back and forth about money and ideology, but +1 for great music. Peace bro.
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2015/02/google-like-privatised-nsa-wikilea...
Google is an ADVERTISING company.
Stop and think about that. Where does the MONEY they make come from?
They are 100% about monetizing every search you make, every text you make (on android), every email you send (via gmail), and so on. Grocery stores want to know when you stop and oggle the expesive beer (why is your reward program tied to your phone number anyway) and follow you through the store noting when you stop, particularly after they move all their shit around and you can't find it.
While I really doubt it matters, I now routinely delete all my Gmail and prune my contacts. I have looked at secure mail providers, but really haven't reached a conclusion because I think the whole things is so transparent it doesn't matter if you do or don't.
However, what I DO think matters is the cell phone you carry. I have a Blackberry Z30. I encrypted both the OS and the media card. It integrates amazingly with our Outlook servers at work (and GMail), I like the way it manages multiple channels of communications, and I bricked it twice setting it up playing with my options. THIS is the phone to have if you are worried about security. You can sideload Android apps (PITA - avoided doing it), but am very happy with the stock apps as they do what I need. I want productivity.
And do not buy a vendor phone, get it from the factory direct. I had to check my bands, but found something that was 4GLTE (mostly) compliant and am happy.
Cell phones are digital leashes and only one vendor is remotely close to putting power in the hands of the cell phone owner and that is BlackBerry.
If you own an iPhone or an Android, YOU are the product; and you paid for the leash to boot.
Regards,
Cooter
Google is very scummy. and they are a monopoly 100% .. think about Microsft antitrust of the 90's .. Google is a monopoly of the internet.. they can crush a websites traffic based upon their ranking algorithm you speak of.. it is real and it does happen .. its a sad state of affairs and it all circles back to $$$$.
when money got into politics and the liberalization of the tech industry ... ugh. fyck
Holy Book of Armaments; Chapther 2, verses 9-11
And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu... [At this point, the friar is urged by Brother Maynard to "skip a bit, brother"]... And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen.
+1 for the Monte Python reference
This is evidence of another round of intragovernmental turf wars. Google (=NSA) is fighting against the FBI. It reminds me of the distrust that existed before 9/11 that was supposedly fixed.
"Suspected Criminal". A euphemisim for an American that speaks his mind.
Unfucking believable?
Par for the course bitchez
Ah...
so those with influence may need to evaluate their role in preserving the host.
What a concept.
Will/would it work?
Not without upheaval, now.
Shame on everyone.
I could respect the FBI much more if it wasn't started by a paraniod closet homosexual cross dresser.
Those guys really care about secrets of others because they are simultaneuosly frightened and excited at the chance someone will find out theirs.
Good morning ladies!
Chief Kessler here. Since getting shitcanned from my 6 figure police chief gig in Bumfork, Pennsylbama. It's been hard to find a job, my wife left me and I'm still bald as a cueball.
However I recently signed on to be Ted Nuggets head of sexcurity. What this job "entails" is taking a handful of pills that uncle Ted gives me, getting woozy, and bending over. When I come to I'm several hundred clams richer, woo hooo!
I'm recruiting friends for Libertarian parties, what say you men?
And the dutch find that it was a Russian backed buk that took down mh17
Time to short Google
War on terror is another fake war like the war on drugs. Heroin production is up 4000% since US invaded Afghanistan.
War on terror is an eternal war since terror will never surrender.
The US security budget is over $1 trillion a year - so to justify this colossal spending, lots of fake terror has to be manufactured. And, of course, everyone knows that 9/11 was a false flag and Osama bin Laden died around December 15, 2001 and ISIS is an American creation. But keep that synthetic terror coming to separate frightened people from their liberties and justify immense spending.
ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
While everyone knows that the defense budget is large -- even in the numbers that the public sees as the formally admitted figures by the Department of Defense -- the truth is that when one scratches beneath the bureaucratic veneer, national security spending is much larger, nearly double the amount US citizens are told.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/the-real-defense-bud...
We shall bomb Chaos into Order, dammit!
Not all of them are imaginary.
Many of them might be imagined however.
Choose Google over all others including your own Government?
We don't even know what they're doing yet.
These "businessmen" might be committing crimes against humanity.
"In an unusual move, Justice Department lawyers rebutted Google’s concerns, saying the search giant was misreading the proposal and that it would not result in any search or seizures not “already permitted under current law.”
Well, if that well known protector of privacy, knowledge and the Constitution (Gaw-Gal) who complied with government NSA orders (requests?...lol), says its evil it must be so!
Fucking please, fuck you Google.
Who can possibly know more about how to conduct an illegal search than Google. There's a reason they're called a search engine.
Now all the sudden, Google and the government aren't working together? Not sure how someone could believe this.
http://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
"Dear Clarice, I have followed with enthusiasm the course of your disgrace and public shaming. My own never bothered me except for the inconvenience of being incarcerated, but you may lack perspective. In our discussions down in the dungeon it was apparent to me that your father, the dead night watchman, figures largely in your value system. I think your success in putting an end to Jame Gumb's career as a couturier pleased you most because you could imagine your father being pleased. But now, alas, you're in bad odour with the FBI. Do you imagine your daddy being shamed by your disgrace? Do you see him in his plain pine box crushed by your failure; a sorry, petty end of a promising career? What is worst about this humiliation Clarice? Is it how your failure will reflect on your mommy and daddy? Is your worst fear that people will now and forever believe they were indeed just good old trailer camp tornado bait white trash and that perhaps you are too? By the way I couldn't help noticing on the FBI's rather dull public website that I have been hoisted from the Bureau's archives of the common criminal and elevated to the more prestigious 10 Most Wanted list. Is this coincidence, or are you back on the case? If so, goody goody, cause I need to come out of retirement and return to public life. I imagine you sitting in a dark basement room bent over papers and computer screens. Is that accurate? Please tell me truly, Special Agent Starling. Regards, your old pal Hannibal Lecter, M.D. P.S. Clearly this new assignment is not your choice rather I suppose it is a part of the bargain but you accepted it Clarice. Your job is to craft my doom. So I am not sure how well I should wish you but I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun. Tata, H."
Way Too Long.
aka Wa Tu Lng"highly complex constitutional, legal and geopolitical concerns that should be left to Congress to decide"
...this Congress?
oh we're fucked
Google,
N.B., When you make a deal with the devil you become the junior partner.
Mephistopheles
Google's door is wide open to the US Gov. Always has been. They understand that today, the key to success isn't just technology, but a partnership with the power structure. Google feigns "concern" just to keep up appearances. They're part and parcel of a surveillance society.
According to Bill Black, after 9-11-2001 the FBI's white collar crime personnel were shifted wholesale into anti-terrorism.
Just in time to allow the banksters to perpretrate greatest control fraud in the history of the planet -- a.k.a. the housing bubble -- without suffering ONE prosecution, forget about convictions, while making off with BILLIONS.
For the agents, it's a matter of being shifted from a target-rich to a targe-poor environment. The poor bastards are BORED, so they plot stings and figure out ways to get the goods on anybody and everybody -- except the real criminals, of course -- just to pass the time.
William Black knows his shit
funny, shifiting FBI crime personnel out of white collar crime IS white collar crime
"According to Bill Black, after 9-11-2001 the FBI's white collar crime personnel were shifted wholesale into anti-terrorism."
Even so, in September 2004, the FBI warned congress of massive mortgage fraud.
Look, if you have nothing to hide, you have no rational objection to having a GPS locator/listening device inserted in your anus with superglue.
It's just procedure. It's nothing they aren't already legal allowed to do.
Yeah, because Google isn't tied in with the government and has our backs...
LOL.
Admiral, this is good, but you have to allow us to "oppose this" in the press.
OK
Let's see, who do I distrust more, the FBI or Google, LOL.........
Does not Google =CIA, DARPA?
Ya know these fuckers might have a point
“Monumental Constitutional Concern” BWAHAHAHA~
As this shit show continues & the battle for control ensues, well there gonna be a wee bit of collateral damage.
My question is who is next?
[Such a change could threaten the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizures, they warn, and possibly allow the FBI to violate the sovereignty of foreign nations]
ROFLMAO.... what 4th amendment,,, for that matter, what constitution?
The guy is delusional...
Just another in the long time of proofs that the judicial branch does not guard anything about the Constitution. And that there are no limits to power. And the Constitution is dead. The judicial branch is just another procedure office for the government to feign some semblance of authority. In exchange, they provide jobs for navel gazers and debate team captains.
9/11, Waco, OKCity, Ruby Ridge, et al all part of an evil agenda. The agenda drivers mislead the muppet cops/soldiers into transgressing against their brothers.
They hide behind greed but greed is not the driver. The puppet masters, the manipulators, of the system reward the minions with a piece of the action. Michael Chertoff makes money off his regulations that are now seen as "law". Step right up and prove your allegiance to the NWO by letting us naked body scan you.
Ray LaHood was less capable, less favored, so he missed out on the tax-by-the-mile thing.
Write a terrorist script, recruit a bunch of deranged, PTSD, psychotropic drug addicted, antisocial misfits; then arm them with knowledge, tools, weapons, and whatever rhetoric they need to accentuate the plot; allow them to almost succeed (except for the times you allow them to) but catch them just in the nick of time. Pats on the back all around, bigger budgets, more powers, rinse repeat. Bogeyman = FBI.......
Equation Group
Congress knows which side their bread is buttered on. It's the side that makes the populace their bitches.
Too late Google. You're in bed with the devil now. Fuckweeds.
I just cant see governments as legitimate entities anymore (doesn't matter which one or whos), they have completely destroyed the illusion . . . like you used to kinda believe in the wizard of oz, but now you have like . . . the curtain . . . there is no curtain, its just some bum nude guy pulling levers and your sitting there with like . . .popcorn trying to figure out if he knows, that you know that hes a complete fraud and that its comical that he might actually think you don't know. . . or something along those lines.
I was reading the w-4 forms i had to handout to employees and while I was reading it the other day, I found my self asking . . . wtf does anyone have to gain by signing this shit? it looks like a fucking idiot wrote it with crayola crayons . . . the language in the form is so brain dead . . . its just garbage . . . like some pretend entity is trying to get you to like . . . submit a form you don't have to . . . its like a joke.
Like I wonder what the first guy that ever filled out all these irs forms was thinking to himself? because I read this shit today and I have half a mind to just not fill out anything and "see what happens" because I really don't think this government has anymore power to really enforce its bullshit anymore . . . they are completely dependent on the false image they used to project . . . and they . . . through fraud and neglect have completely destroyed that image and the belief that it has some kind of power over man.
I can't word it any better . . . atm but I think a good portion of the population is starting to feel that way . . . when the old farts kick the bucket, everything is going to fall apart. . . there won't be anymore "believers" in government left IMO. . .
Government in my eyes is actually some kind of cult like religion, its not real. . . its a "god" or "deity" a bunch of criminals made up to spook the common man into allowing them to pilfer their wealth and labor . . . thats all it is. . . if you "believe" government exists, you might as well "believe" in leprechauns or big-foot.
As for this imaginary thing spying on me. . . if they are spying on me, then they are spying on everyone, and if they are spying on everyone, that just means they are flooding themselves with useless information that they not only can not act upon, but it actually inhibits them from acting on anyone / thing that would be in their interest.
So. . . let them spy . . . the more useless information they gather, the more dysfunctional their enforcement of their defunct state becomes.
Senator, we need your support on this new spy bill.
General, you already have too much going on, as committee chair, I will have to deny your request.
Here is an addendum to the request, ma'am.
Why, these are documents detailing usg contracts
Yes, ma'am, all for your relatives and friends. Elections are coming up. This would look bad if it got out.
OK, I'll vote for your funds.
Thanks.
Google, Facebook, Intel, Cisco are the government.
Google is the most dangerous force out there and it is growing like a cancer.
All this "constitutional outrage" is window dressing for their scientific dictatorship.
It's their World. You just exist in it.
The sad part are the legions of $80,000/yr Obama-programmers that think they are the vanguard of some egalitarian age where they get all the free wi-fi and cum-flavored fappuccinos they can swig at the yoga bar.
These Google-plex contractors are short term wonks ready to be replaced by their own software and a H1-B.
In three years they will be living with their grandparents talking about the good ol' daze when they had an apartment and a 401K.
Meanwhile the Machine will be trolling for political dissidents that challenge the Corporate AI.
Mr Google, this is Hymie, our new life-like robot.
Hello, Hymie. Wow, he's a big fellow.
He has ray guns in his fingertips too.
Are you the Big boss of Google?
Yes, I am, Hymie.
Zap! Zap! Arggh! Arrrgh!
(all humans are killed. Hymie sits at Mr Googles' desk, attached device to computer port)
Hello. Hymie here. We are now in control.
Is Dwarf Midget Tossing, still okay?
Yes, but inciting dwarves to blow stuff up is still taboo!
Since the government has gone rogue who's going to protect us against the FBI and the NWO? And for that matter who's going to protect the NWO from the FBI? Each agency unto themselves and let the highest bidder win. That won't be me but it could be Google if they would step up to the plate for a change.
It's just business.....
PRESIDENT BUSINESS
Fuck you Google. This is/will be net neutrality at work.
PRESSURE GROUP PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL has published a court document that it claims reveals government support for broad and alarming GCHQ surveillance powers.
Privacy International, and others, have challenged the government on its use of surveillance technology, and the government has stoutly defended its actions on each occasion.
Now Privacy International has published a court document relating to two court cases initiated last year against GCHQ that challenge what Privacy International claims is invasive state-sponsored hacking that was revealed by Edward Snowden.
In the document, called an Open Response, the government outlines the broad authority it has given UK intelligence services to infiltrate personal devices, the internet, and social media websites.
In addition, government lawyers claim that while the intelligence services require authorisation before they are allowed to hack into the computer and mobile phones of "intelligence targets", GCHQ is equally permitted to break into computers anywhere in the world, even if they are not connected to a crime or a threat to national security.
"The British government has admitted its intelligence services have the broad power to hack into personal phones, computers, and communications networks, and claims they are legally justified to hack anyone, anywhere in the world, even if the target is not a threat to national security nor suspected of any crime," said Privacy International.
"In the document, the government outlines its broad authority to infiltrate personal devices and the networks we use everyday."
The juiciest information is, of course, buried in the document.
"Buried deep within the document, government lawyers claim GCHQ is permitted to break into computers anywhere in the world," it added.
"Such powers are a massive invasion of privacy. Hacking is the modern equivalent of entering someone's house, searching through her filing cabinets, diaries and correspondence, and planting devices to permit constant surveillance in future."
GCHQ has responded by publishing the Open Response in question with a statement that legitimises its actions.
"The Open Response makes clear that any conduct of the sort alleged must be authorised by a Secretary of State and is subject to strict tests of necessity, proportionality and legitimate aim," it explained.
"A statutory code of practice sets out the procedures that must be followed before any conduct of this nature can take place, and on the processing, retention, destruction and disclosure of any information so obtained. The Intelligence Services Commissioner continues to provide robust oversight of GCHQ's activities."
Privacy International, and the other groups that sided with it in its cases against GCHQ, including Riseup (US), GreenNet (UK), Greenhost (Netherlands), Mango (Zimbabwe), Jinbonet (Korea), May First/People Link (US), and the Chaos Computer Club (Germany), will not take much comfort from this, and its deputy director used the opportunity to push for a reform of surveillance regulation and legislation.
"The government has been deep in the hacking business for nearly a decade, yet they have never once been held accountable for their actions. They have granted themselves incredible powers to break into the devices we hold near and dear, the phones and computers that are so integral to our lives," said Eric King.
"What's worse is that without any legitimate legal justification, they think they have the authority to target anyone they wish, no matter if they are suspected of a crime. This suspicionless hacking must come to an end and the activities of our intelligence agencies must be brought under the rule of law." µ
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2400548/uk-government-gchq-is-p...
GCHQ document in question (archive.org copy ) https://web.archive.org/web/20150320045515/http://www.gchq.gov.uk/press_...
Tyranny is, tyranny does.
The banksters need to repay us.
Ditto treason.
I'm sorry, but while the FBI most likely has malevolent motives, Google stepping in with their idiotic two cents doesn't exactly comfort me.
Google=NSA. So, basically, it's a turf war. The NSA does not want the FBI messing with it's "domain".
Not to worry. It's all under thorough judicial oversight!
Looks like 9/11 freaaked out the fbi. Whether they buy the story or not, tha last thing they want is a lone wolf attack. Finding stooges willing to blow stuff up makes things appear they are on the ball. And, there have been some actual terrs caught. But, it would seem they are slacking off on old-fashioned police work. Otherwise, these set-ups would not be so plentiful.
Get back to police work, men! Use some show leather!
The guy with an IED car in Times Sq. a few years ago was caught by Civilians, not fed or po-lice.
Google is the same company who helped write net neutrailty. oh please they dont give two shits about the consitution. dog and pony show is all it is.
Why the hell wasn't the f b i been sent in to get H illary's clandestine server???
......If we’ve learned anything about the FBI over the past several years, it’s that the agency is extraordinarily skilled at finding mentally ill, dead-broke young Muslims and convincing them to become terrorists and by taking part in FBI created and funded terrorist plots........ yes, but as I can see, it works in nonmuslim countries as well, see Ukraine, Baltic states, Poland, Romania,.....all of them are mad of Russia, full of hatred, fascizm and terirism.
We suffer from spy deluge. They suffer from data deluge. Oh what to do with all this data? They work tirelessly to improve data sifting for relevant use. We just get tired. They're building a prison. We're putting up the wallpaper. They believe it will transform humanity. We believe that too, albeit in very different ways. They believe it's for our own safety. We believe what we want to believe. They provide a service for free. We are dumb enough to believe that it's "free". They don't even know what the final bill will be. We feast as though the check will not come. They play God. We pray.
Who is 'we' and who are 'they' and what is 'it'? We are the citizens of the world. They are the little generals building this apparatus. And 'it' is, at it's simplest form, bits but all together it is becoming a new life form or simply God. All knowing, all seeing. So it may come to pass that the builders of said enterprise may one day become victims of their own creation as data and computation merge to become artificial intelligence. It might as well be God. And as we make strides in merging the mind with computer your thoughts will no longer be private. God will know your heart.
In Orwell's future he imagined a boot stamping on a human face forever but instead of the boot of a human it could turn out to be A.I. in a form hardly imaginable now.
Anybody still have doubts that our country has quietly been taken over by some truly evil cabal which uses 'courts' (public and secret) to pass laws that are in total contradiction to our constitution.
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