Mois : octobre 2013 (Page 9 of 14)

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Any reviews they write will be labeled as being from a Cardmember if they have used their AmEx card to pay for something at the hotel or restaurant they are reviewing. Perhaps this will be attractive to a small segment of reviewers, but there’s probably more value in this for readers of reviews who can trust that these labeled opinions come from real people who have actually visited an establishment.

We need to determine whether classifying these programs is legal. Keeping things secret from the people is a very dangerous practice in a democracy, and the government is permitted to do so only under very specific circumstances. Reading the documents leaked so far, I don’t see anything that needs to be kept secret. The argument that exposing these documents helps the terrorists doesn’t even pass the laugh test; there’s nothing here that changes anything any potential terrorist would do or not do. But in any case, now that the documents are public, the courts need to rule on the legality of their secrecy.

The three principle laws that set out the parameters for the intelligence agencies are the 1994 Intelligence Services Act, the Human Rights Act, and Ripa 2000. None of them could possibly have anticipated the technological advances that have been made in surveillance capabilities over the last few years. The former chair of parliament’s intelligence and security committee, Lord King, has said it is high time these laws are reviewed and updated. The former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have also questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.

On Tuesday the head of MI5 Andrew Parker gave a speech in which he mounted a robust defence of GCHQ and its surveillance methods. Though he didn’t name Edward Snowden or the Guardian by name, he explicitly criticised recent leaks from the whistleblower. Here are the key extracts from the speech – along with the Guardian’s analysis and context.

Les dispositions générales inscrites par exemple dans la loi sur la protection des données ou dans le code civil valent aussi pour les réseaux sociaux. Il n’est toutefois pas certain que ces réglementations se révèlent efficaces dans la pratique, reconnaît le gouvernement. La loi est difficile à appliquer, car les plateformes sont souvent hébergées à l’étranger et les internautes communiquent de manière anonyme.