CGI's Dave404: Awkward questions face Australia after US
spy row
In Response To: CGI's
Dave404: PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden may have left Hong Kong hotel,
whereabouts unknown (CGI_admin)
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Awkward questions face Australia after US spy
row "Unease over a clandestine US data collection program has rippled across the Pacific to two of Washington's major allies, Australia and New Zealand, raising concerns about whether they have cooperated with secret electronic data mining. Both Canberra and Wellington share intelligence with the United States, as well as Britain and Canada. But both Pacific neighbours now face awkward questions about a US digital surveillance program that Washington says is aimed primarily at foreigners. In Australia, the conservative opposition said it was "very troubled" by America's so-called PRISM program, which newspaper reports say is a top-secret authorisation for the US National Security Agency (NSA) to extract personal data from the computers of major internet firms. The opposition, poised to win September elections, said it was concerned that data stored by Australians in the computer servers of US internet giants like Facebook and Google could be accessed by the NSA, echoing fears voiced in Europe last week over the reach of US digital surveillance in the age of cloud computing." Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/awkward-questions-face-australia-after-us-spy-row-20130610-2nzfz.html#ixzz2VrVQRttG Dave404. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=279360 |
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