• More Fog From the Spy Agencies - NYTimes.com
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/opinion/more-fog-from-the-spy-agencies.html

    The Obama administration released narrowly selected and heavily censored documents and sent more officials to testify before Congress on Wednesday in an effort to defend the legality and value of the surveillance of all Americans’ telephone calls. The effort was a failure.

    The documents clarified nothing of importance, and the hearing raised major new questions about whether the intelligence agencies had been misleading Congress and the public about the electronic dragnet. At the end of the day, we were more convinced than ever that the government had yet to come clean on the legal arguments and court orders underlying the surveillance.

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    The administration released three documents. One was an April order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which operates in secret, approving the collection of “all call detail records” from a company that was not named but was a Verizon subsidiary. The order resolved nothing about the fundamental question of why the program was needed and authorized in the first place.

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    But the administration has still not released the underlying legal arguments and the original rulings by the surveillance court on which the released order was based. Those documents are essential to public understanding about the data collection, as the chairman of the judiciary committee, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and other members pointed out forcefully on Wednesday.

    The two other documents released Wednesday were letters to Congress saying the N.S.A. had really analyzed only a tiny fraction of the data it was collecting but failed to say why the enormous collection was necessary, legal or wise. Those legal arguments remain classified. The declassified letters said the collection efforts “significantly strengthen” the discovery of terrorists and their plots; the agency has previously claimed that 54 plots were disrupted by the collection of phone records and a separate, targeted collection of Internet data.

    But those claims seemed to fade away on Wednesday. In his testimony, the best that John Inglis, deputy N.S.A. director, could come up with was that “there is an example” that “comes close to a ‘but for’ example.” (...)

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    #surveillance #NSA

  • Les nouvelles habitudes transforment le logiciel - NYTimes.com
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/technology/as-work-habits-change-software-makers-rush-to-innovate.html?adxnnl=1&ref=te

    Les smartphones transforment en profondeur le travail de bureau. Mais comment l’industrie du smartphone s’adapte-t-elle à ces nouveaux besoins tant au niveau du partage que de la création/consultation de documents en situation de mobilité ? Et Jim Wilson pour le New York Times de nous inviter à faire le tour des Google Drive de la mobilité comme Quip, Evernote, Box...

    La conception mobile demande de proposer moins de choix (moins de police, moins de boutons, moins de styles...) au profit de la (...)

    #mobilite #entreprise #collaboration