During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation. Those figures, described as a typical daily intake in the document, correspond to a rate of more than 250 million a year.

L’ancien consultant du renseignement américain, Edward Snowden, a reçu jeudi 10 octobre un prix remis annuellement par une association américaine composée notamment d’anciens membres de la CIA pour “son intégrité dans le travail de renseignement”.

While EFF has long had concerns about the ability of multistakeholder groups like GNI to take sufficiently prompt and forthright stances with regard to global privacy, freedom of expression and security concerns, the recent NSA revelations have demonstrated that there is a much deeper problem. It has become clear that affected companies are unable even to talk about secret orders they have received from the US government. We know that the same is true for other governments around the world. Documents publicized in the last few weeks related to NSA surveillance have highlighted just how dramatic government interference with Internet companies’ security practices has been.

As a result, EFF longer no believes we can sign our name onto joint statements that rely on shared knowledge of the secur ity of company products or their internal processes.

An Estonian court had held a local news site, Delfi AS, liable for offensive comments that were posted on a story anonymously. The story in question dates back to 2006, and centered on a ferry firm that had changed its routes thus causing delays to the opening of new ice roads – Delfi was fined $434 in damages. But why was it held responsible for the defamatory comments, and not the commenters themselves? Well, because they were anonymous.