Friday, August 2, 2013

Docs show how NSA analysts can look at Facebook chats

New documents detailing yet another National Security Agency program reveals how the agency uses metadata to search for targets, as well as monitor emails and online chats such as Facebook chats.

XKeyscore, the Guardian reports, is a program that allows NSA analysts to search through ?the metadata as well as the content of emails and other internet activity, such as browser history, even when there is no known email account (a ?selector? in NSA parlance) associated with the individual being targeted.?

?Analysts can also search by name, telephone number, IP address, keywords, the language in which the internet activity was conducted or the type of browser used,? reports the Guardian.

Supporters of the agency?s mass collection program revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have been dismissive of criticisms, saying the collection of phone numbers and other metadata did not threaten Americans? privacy.

The newly revealed information reveals how metadata collected by the agency in bulk is used; even a phone number or an email address enables analysts to easily track their targets. XKeyscore also allows analysts to monitor the contents of emails and online chats.

The Guardian also reports that an NSA document from 2007 shows that ?there were 850 billion ?call events? collected and stored in the NSA databases, and close to 150 billion internet records. Each day, the document says, one to two billion records were added.?

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified documents on Wednesday pertaining to the NSA?s controversial collection of phone records.

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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/31/docs-show-how-nsa-analysts-can-look-at-facebook-chats/

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Taiwan lawmakers brawl over nuclear plant bill

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ? Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and threw water at each other Friday ahead of an expected vote that would authorize a national referendum on whether to finish building a fourth power plant on this densely populated island of 23 million people.

Nuclear power has long been a contentious issue in Taiwan and became more so following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. While frequent earthquakes have led many Taiwanese to conclude that nuclear power generation constitutes an unacceptable safety risk, economic analyses suggest disruptive power shortages are inevitable if the fourth plant is not completed.

Friday's fracas pitted the pro-referendum forces of President Ma Ying-jeou's ruling Nationalist Party against strongly anti-nuclear forces affiliated with the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. DPP lawmakers occupied the legislative podium late Thursday night amid vows to disrupt the referendum vote, tentatively scheduled for noon Friday (0400 GMT). With a large Nationalist majority in the 113-seat legislature, the referendum bill is expected to pass easily.

Construction of Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant began in 1997 but was halted while the DPP was in power between 2000 and 2008. If the referendum is passed it could become operational by 2016.

Physical confrontations broke out early in Friday's session. Associated Press television footage shows some eight people pushing and shoving in one scrum. Two people scuffled on the floor, while others tried to separate them. More than a dozen activists in bright yellow shirts chanted and waved signs on a nearby balcony, and several of them splashed water onto lawmakers below. A few water bottles were thrown into the fray.

Some DPP lawmakers object to the idea of any nuclear referendum at all, while others say that the language in the bill needs to be changed because it is prejudicial. According to the bill under discussion, referendum voters would be asked to vote on whether they agree with the proposition that "the construction of the fourth nuclear power plant should be halted and that it not become operational."

Taiwan began transitioning away from a one-party martial law regime in 1987 and is regarded today as one of Asia's most vibrant democracies. But its political process has been undermined by occasional outbursts of violence in the legislature, much of which appears to be deliberately designed to score points among hardline supporters on either side of the island's longstanding political divide.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-lawmakers-brawl-over-nuclear-plant-bill-030123310.html

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Hillsdale College Apologizes for Its President

Hillsdale College Apologizes for Its President

Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn has issued an apology after referring to the faces of minorities on his campus as "dark ones" during an appearance before a legislative subcommittee in Lansing.
The Detroit News reports that Arnn's apology came in a statement Wednesday afternoon that read: "No offense was intended by the use of that term except to the offending bureaucrats."
The Detroit Free Press had earlier reported that Arnn told lawmakers that the state once sent people to Hillsdale to "look at the colors of people's faces and write down what they saw."
He then asked what kind of faces the visitors were seeking "besides dark ones."
Arnn was speaking Wednesday against the state's adoption of common learning standards.
Hillsdale is about 50 miles southwest of Ann Arbor.


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