Summary of Snowden and Surveillance Scandals (SSSS)

24.Feb.2017

CyberSec / ITSec / Sicherheit / Security / SPAM

EU = “a lot of bla without consequences?”

did the EU DO ANYTHING except bullying it’s companies with (almost useless) data protection laws?

if not you can assume the EU is just an extended arm of the US or at least under massive US lobbying.

but if the EU is not doing any good – it may also just go away.

European Parliament – LIBE Committee Inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens 11 November 2013.

US surveillance programmes and their impact on EU citizens’ privacy:

Mr Jim SENSENBRENNER, US House of Representatives, (Member of the Committee on the Judiciary and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations).

The role of Parliamentary oversight of intelligence services at national level in an era of mass surveillance:

Mr Peter ERIKSSON, Chair of the Committee on the Constitution, Swedish Parliament (Riksdag).

Mr A.H. VAN DELDEN, Chair of the Dutch independent Review Committee on the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD).

US NSA programmes for electronic mass surveillance and the role of IT Companies: Ms Dorothee BELZ, Vice-President, Legal and Corporate Affairs Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Mr Nicklas LUNDBLAD, Director, Public Policy and Government Relations, Google. Mr Richard ALLAN, Director EMEA Public Policy, Facebook. (full very long hearing full of bla)

“The Guardian in 2013, XKEYSCORE is by the NSA’s own admission its “widest reaching” program, capturing “nearly everything a typical user does on the internet.” A subsequent report by The Intercept showed that XKEYSCORE’s “collected communications not only include emails, chats, and web-browsing traffic, but also pictures, documents, voice calls, webcam photos, web searches, advertising analytics traffic, social media traffic, botnet traffic, logged keystrokes, computer network exploitation targeting, intercepted username and password pairs, file uploads to online services, Skype sessions, and more.” For the NSA and its global partners, XKEYSCORE makes all of this as searchable as a hotel reservation site.”

src: https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/