Google and the NSA's secret service
U.S. consumer groups has asked Congress for information about the cluster of Google with the U.S. secret service NSA.
In an open letter, addressed to the member of Congress Darrell Issa, an association called 'Consumer Watchdog' submitted a request to create a parliamentary committee to investigate the extent to which Google exchanges data with the secret service NSA. It will also require investigation as to whether Google secret parts of its network of agents provides a basis for mutual communication.
Issa's deputy president of the state control and state reforms. He and other lawmakers have repeatedly expressed concern about the relationship between Google and government organizations.
Recently, Issa wrote a letter and sent it to Google, which has asked for information about Google's relationship with the White House. The background story is that the Deputy Technical Director (CTO) of the U.S. Government, Andrew McLaughlin, was formerly a longtime employee at Google.
"The biggest scandal of all time interception"
Association "Consumer Watchdog, " thinks the NSA can optionally see all the data that make amends with Google. A particular thorn in the association's past illegal wiretapping scandal WLAN networks over Google Street-View-car. "In this way, the data collected represent the largest eavesdropping scandal in world history, " says the letter.
The UN is considering a new global internet police - The reason Wikileaks
The UN is considering whether to set up an intergovernmental working group to regulate the internet. The establishment of such a working group has the support of several countries where the government is led by Brazil.
On Wednesday, 22.12.2010. meeting in New York, representatives from Brazil, called for an international body composed of representatives of each government that would create global standards for the control of the Internet, and acute reason for this phenomenon is Wikileaks request.
Brazilian delegates stressed that the course would not be seen as a call for a "takeover" of the Internet in government hands. From the perspective of citizens, unfortunately, means exactly that. A central unit will decide on the content of websites that will be easy with one button to lock any content on a global level.
India, South Africa, China and Saudi Arabia has previously favored a possible new body that would be beyond any government, which would mean the introduction of an independent internetpolicije independently used in this regard and is not related to the border.
However, Australia, USA, UK, Belgium and Canada are skeptical and maybe not because it will abolish free speech over the Internet but their main concern will be to increase the distance between people and their government and so may get to major conflicts.
In the U.S., the adoption of the Internet already well under way. Agency for Homeland Security(DHS) has recently begun, with no legal basis to lock different pages and assume the reason for copyright infringement. U.S. FCC has even tried to take control above the internet, and if there is no legal authority.
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