{"id":18876,"date":"2016-03-15T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18876"},"modified":"2016-03-15T11:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:16:52","slug":"mass-surveillance-programs-futile-in-fighting-terror-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18876","title":{"rendered":"Mass surveillance programs futile in fighting terror \u2013 Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mass surveillance programs futile in fighting terror \u2013 Snowden<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Bulk data gathering programs used by US intelligence have no effect in combating terrorism and have failed to prevent any attacks in their 10 years of operation, whistleblower and former NSA contactor Edward Snowden, claims in a recent interview.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn the wake of the revelations of mass surveillance the [US] president [Barack Obama] appointed two independent commissions to review the efficiency of these [surveillance] programs, what they really did and what effect they had in combating terrorism. [The commissions comprised] the highest priests of these programs, they found these programs had never stopped a single terrorist attack and never made a concrete difference in a terrorist investigation,<\/em>\u201d Snowden told Spanish TV channel\u00a0Sexta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The whistleblower went on saying, that \u201cthey [the NSA, CIA] violated the constitution and the rights of 330 million Americans for 10 years. We have to ask ourselves: was it ever worth it?<\/em>\u201dHe also stated that despite being justified by preventing terrorist attacks, surveillance programs are more often used for completely different purposes.<\/p>\n

“It was diplomatic manipulation, economic spying and social control. It was about power, and there is no doubt that mass surveillance increases the power of the government.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

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\u2018That\u2019s horse sh*t!\u2019: FBI can already unlock iPhone without Apple\u2019s help \u2013 Snowden\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

Snowden stressed that bulk data collection is \u201cmore aggressive and invasive today than it was before. Law enforcement and intelligence structures do not any longer bother to pick up a suspect and hack his cell phone, they cut in into all lines and communications [\u2026] at the heart of the society.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mass surveillance programs futile in fighting terror \u2013 Snowden Edward Snowden \u00a9 AutoTracking \/ YouTube Bulk data gathering programs used by US intelligence have no effect in combating terrorism and have failed to prevent any attacks in their 10 years of operation, whistleblower and former NSA contactor Edward Snowden, claims in a recent interview. \u201cIn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12965,249,5570,551,577,8114,746,5906],"class_list":["post-18876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bulk-data-collection","tag-edward-snowden","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-rt-news","tag-spying","tag-us-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18877,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18876\/revisions\/18877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}