IP-Watch Updates On The Mass Surveillance Debates

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PRISM, Snowden and Government Surveillance: 6 Things You Need To Know (Cloudwards)

Codename ‘Apalachee’: How America Spies on Europe and the UN (Der Spiegel)

NSA said to have broader Net reach than previously thought (CNET)

Warrantless cell phone tracking by law enforcement upheld in US (New York Times)

NSA official says no one fired, or offered to resign, over Snowden (Reuters)

Momentum Builds Against NSA Surveillance (New York Times)

Information Consumerism: The Price of Hypocrisy (Frankfurter Allgemeine)

Understanding surveillance as an information economy (Crikey News)

TechFreedom & CEI Urge Congress to Defund Suspicionless NSA Surveillance (TechFreedom)

Key to cleaning up the internet is tackling the darknets, not letting censorship in by the back door (ZDNet)

The coming push for open source everything (InfoWorld)

Bipartisan backlash grows against domestic surveillance (The New York Times)

Church Leaders, Gun Groups Sue NSA Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Phone Surveillance (Intellectual Property Watch)

EU, US Conclude First Round Of Trade Talks (Intellectual Property Watch)

Nations Begin To Take Action Against United States For NSA Spying (Intellectual Property Watch)

Special Report: European Dialogue On Internet Governance: Regulating Cyberspace After Prism? (Intellectual Property Watch)

Internet Censorship and Control Papers (Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University)

Google challenges DOJ’s surveillance gag order (CNET)

EU Commissioner: PRISM Will Hurt US Businesses, Create EU Opportunities (Intellectual Property Watch)

How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? (ComputerWorld UK)

Edward Snowden Q&A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions (UK Guardian Newspaper)

GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians’ communications at G20 summits (UK Guardian Newspaper)

Secret to PRISM program:even bigger data seizure (AP)

Secrets, lies and America’s spies (The Economist)

German PRISM petition (Change.org)

U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms (Bloomberg)

New cyber security body to rope in ISPs  (Times of India)

Internet Society Statement on the Importance of Open Global Dialogue Regarding Online Privacy (Internet Society)

Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press (Wired)

New Principles Address the Balance between National Security and the Public’s Right to Know (Open Society Foundations)

Mass Surveillance No Surprise To Many In Technology And Politics (Intellectual Property Watch)

Obama administration convinced EU to drop measure that would have blocked NSA spying (Washington Post)

Track the Trackers (Nature)

ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of NSA Phone Spying Program (American Civil Liberties Union)

Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program (Prism-Break)

Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Declassify FISA Court Opinions (US Senator Jeff Merkley [D-Oregon])

CCIA Calls for Disclosure of Government Surveillance, Praises Bill To Declassify Some FISA Court Rulings (Computer and Communications Industry Association)

Justice Dept. weighs Google’s request to lift NSA gag order (CNET)

Edward Snowden: Saving us from the United Stasi of America (UK Guardian Newspaper)

Edward Snowden: The whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations (UK Guardian Newspaper)

The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning (TruthDig)

Statement on Consensus Achieved by the UN Group of Governmental Experts On Cyber Issues (US Department of State)

Coalition of US Nongovernmental Organisations Writes Letter Demanding Legal Reform From Congress (Stop Watching Us)

UN Special Rapporteur urges more clarity on Obama’s counter-terrorism policies (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)

Daniel Ellsberg: ‘I’m sure that President Obama would have sought a life sentence in my case’ (Washington Post)

U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas (New York Times)

U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program (Washington Post)

NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others (UK Guardian Newspaper)