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French regulators are about to sanction Google over privacy breach

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PressTV.ir - 9/28/13, GHK/AB/MHB

 

File photo shows the company logo at Google headquarters in California

File photo shows the company logo at Google headquarters in California
 
France’s data-protection watchdog has decided to fine Google up to 300,000 euros (USD 402,180) over its failure to observe data privacy rules.
 
The controversial issues remain to be what American multinational corporation does with the users’ personal information and how long it keeps the data.
 

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Pakistani PM wants 'new beginning' with India

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PressTV - 9/28/13

 

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 27, 2013.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 27, 2013.
 
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says he is eagerly waiting to meet his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to "make a new beginning" in the relationship between Islamabad and New Delhi.
 
Over the past two decades, the conflict in Kashmir has left over 47,000 people dead by the official count, although other sources say the death toll could be as high as 100,000.

 

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Peer-to-Peer Economy Thrives as Activists Vacate the System

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Activist Post - 9/27/13, Eric Blair

 

The Occupy Movement recently celebrated its second anniversary with very little fanfare leaving many to wonder where all the activists went. It seems they, and many anti-establishment activists, are vacating the system rather than occupying it.

Progressives may call it the "sharing economy" while Libertarians may refer to it as Agorism -  a "society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution."

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Sen. Feinstein unveils her own bill to reform the NSA’s spying practices

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The Washington Post - Brian Fung, 9/26/13

 

U.S. Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)(L) speaks with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (2nd L), National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole (R) before they testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 26, 2013.    REUTERS/Jason Reed   (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

U.S. Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (2nd L), National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole (R) before they testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 26, 2013. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

The movement to change the rules governing the National Security Agency's surveillance activity is picking up steam.

ATT, Verizon, Sprint Are Paid Cash By NSA For Your Private Communications

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Forbes - 9/23/13, Robert Lenzner

 

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The National Security Agency pays AT&T, Verizon and Sprint several hundred million dollars a year for access to 81% of all international phone calls into the US, according to a leaked inspector general’s report, which has been reported by the Washington Post, AP, and the New York Review of Books.

In fact., this secret report says that “NSA maintains relationships with over 100 U.S. companies, underscoring that the U/S. has the “home-field advantage as the primary hub for worldwide communications,”  the New York Review of Books reported in its August 15 issue. These secret cooperative agreements reveal that NSA   pays surveillance fees  to  telcos and phone companies were first made public by Edward Snowden, the former NSA administrator, now  resident in Russia.

Asking What Kissinger Thinks–but Not What He Did

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Global Research - Peter Hart, 9/24/13

 

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Kissinger’s record haunts him; every so often there are reports about how it interrupts his international travel plans, like in 2001 when a French magistrate sent Kissinger a summons at a Paris hotel, inquiring about Kissinger’s role in the notorious Operation Condor programs of the 1970s. Kissinger promptly left town–and did a series of high-profile media interviews, none of which mentioned the French attempt to question him about human rights abuses (Extra!, 8/01).

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