In a way, one of the two great facts of the week seems to have come to redeem the injustice that is systematically committed around the world with Julian Assange, the brain behind theWikileaks, a non-profit transnational organisation based in Sweden, dedicated to exposing secret documents.
In recent years, he has repeatedly stated that Facebook, Google, Microsoft and all these services that we like – and professionally, even depends, in some cases – are the subject of espionage by governments. In general, these statements were accompanied by documents obtained in an unknown way, and many people did not give him credibility because of it.
This week, however, it was hot in the country over which, in general, the main accusations of virtual snooping in information from ordinary citizens: the United States fall. The first heavy artillery came from the English newspaper The Guardian, which published on Wednesday firsthand, that data from all connections of the Verizon mobile phone operator in the USA can be collected by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Yesterday, it was the diary's turn. The Washington Post re-leveraging PRISM, an NSA program that is free to log into the servers of “Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple” and collecting information that is then passed on to analysts. In the paper “top secret” obtained by the newspaper, there is also the observation: “Dropbox, the cloud storage and synchronization service, is described as ‘coming soon’”. More: The document reports that PRISM is one of the main sources of information that make up the daily “briefing” on national security sent to President Barack Obama.
The companies, of course, denied the “partnership” and stated that they did not know the existence of the such PRISM. Following that, US National Intelligence Director James R. Clapper released an official statement ensuring that the reports of the Guardian and WP contain “many inaccuracies”, but gave no example.
To read the full content of the articles, please visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html and http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order.
And you, what's your opinion on the concept of privacy these days?
