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    La NSA a commis"des milliers" d’infractions aux lois sur la vie privée - ÉTATS-UNIS - FRANCE 24
    ▻http://www.france24.com/fr/20130816-nsa-enfreint-milliers-fois-lois-vie-privee-snwoden-washington-pos

    ▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds/2013/08/15/3310e554-05ca-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html

    Le Washington Post a révélé jeudi, que des « milliers » d’infractions avaient été commises par l’Agence nationale de la sécurité (#NSA) américaine, en s’appuyant des documents secrets livrés au journal par Edward #Snowden.

    Des « milliers » d’infractions aux lois sur le respect de la #vie_privée ont été commises par l’Agence nationale de la sécurité (NSA), a rapporté jeudi 16 août le Washington Post sur son site internet. Des violations observés depuis que l’agence américaine du renseignement a été dotée de nouveaux pouvoirs, il y a cinq ans.

    Ces infractions ont été révélées par une analyse d’un audit interne et d’autres documents secrets, qui ont été livrés au journal par l’ancien consultant américain du renseignement Edward Snowden.

    L’un des documents cité par le Washington Post montre que la NSA avait ordonné à ses équipes de falsifier des rapports adressés au département de la Justice et au Bureau du directeur du Renseignement national, en remplaçant certains détails, selon l’article.

    Selon le journal, la NSA a également caché la surveillance non intentionnelle de plusieurs Américains. Ainsi, en 2008, un « grand nombre » d’appels téléphoniques en provenance de Washington ont été surveillés après une erreur de programmation qui a interverti le préfixe de la zone de la capitale américaine (202) avec celui de l’Égypte (20). L’erreur n’avait pas été révélée à l’équipe de surveillance de la NSA, indique l’article du Post.

    Selon la même source, l’audit sur la NSA, daté de mai 2012, a dénombré 2 776 incidents au cours des 12 mois précédents, concernant des « collectes, stockages, accès et communication de données protégées légalement, sans autorisation ».

    La plupart de ces incidents n’étaient pas intentionnels, mais nombre d’entre eux sont dus à des défaillances, ou à la violation des procédures normales.

    « Nous sommes une agence conduite par des humains et agissant dans un environnement complexe avec un grand nombre de régimes de régulation différents, c’est pourquoi nous nous retrouvons parfois du mauvais côté de la barrière », a déclaré un haut responsable de la NSA s’exprimant sous couvert de l’anonymat, en réponse aux questions du journal.

    Latest Leak: NSA Abused Rules To Spy On Americans ’Thousands Of Times Each Year’ - ▻http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130815/18185824196/latest-leak-nsa-abused-rules-to-spy-americans-thousands-times-each-year.sh

    Even worse, this report only covers the NSA’s activities in the DC area. Other NSA locations are not covered.

    Three government officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified matters, said the number would be substantially higher if it included other NSA operating units and regional collection centers.

    White House Tried To Interfere With Washington Post’s Report, And To Change Quotes From NSA | Techdirt
    ▻http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130816/01314924200/white-house-tried-to-interfere-with-washington-posts-report-to-change-quot

    ▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-statements-to-the-post/2013/08/15/f40dd2c4-05d6-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html

    Among the many, many incredible revelations from the Washington Post report on the abuses by the NSA is a tidbit about an interview that the Post was able to do with the NSA’s director of compliance, John DeLong, followed by the White House’s attempt to completely whitewash the interview and block his quotes from being used, despite being told otherwise initially:

    The Obama administration referred all questions for this article to John DeLong, the NSA’s director of compliance, who answered questions freely in a 90-minute interview. DeLong and members of the NSA communications staff said he could be quoted “by name and title” on some of his answers after an unspecified internal review. The Post said it would not permit the editing of quotes. Two days later, White House and NSA spokesmen said that none of DeLong’s comments could be quoted on the record and sent instead a prepared statement in his name. The Post declines to accept the substitute language as quotations from DeLong.

    Read that again. This is the same White House that has been saying that they want to be as transparent as possible and to rebuild trust. And yet, here they are trying to block the Post from using an interview — an interview they suggested in the first place — and then to replace it with a bland and bogus “statement.”

    #surveillance #mensonges

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      NSA’s Defense Of All Those Abuses: ’Well, Compared To All The Spying We Do, We Don’t Abuse It That Often’ | Techdirt
      ▻http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130816/02134124202/nsas-defense-all-those-abuses-well-compared-to-all-spying-we-do-we-dont-ab

      In our initial report about the Washington Post’s astounding revelations about NSA abuses of surveillance, we posted part of the NSA’s “defense” to these abuses, but we left out the truly crazy part, which came right after the part we initially quoted:

      “ You can look at it as a percentage of our total activity that occurs each day,” he said. “You look at a number in absolute terms that looks big, and when you look at it in relative terms, it looks a little different. ”

      This was a senior NSA official, almost certainly the NSA’s “compliance director” arguing, in effect, “we do so much spying, that a few thousand mistakes per year is really no big deal.” Except, remember, throughout all of this, all of the NSA’s defenders, from President Obama to James Clapper to Keith Alexander to Mike Rogers, keep insisting that abuse is next to impossible.

      Yet, now even the NSA is admitting that “in absolute terms” there’s a lot of abuse, but we shouldn’t worry our pretty little heads about it, because in relative terms, it’s not that much. This is the point at which anyone who understands the difference between absolute and relative numbers, and when each is the appropriate measure to use, starts coughing up a lung. The relative amount is meaningless here. The absolute number means everything, because it shows that abuse is widespread and happens daily — something that the program’s defenders have been trying to deny for months.

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      NSA revelations of privacy breaches ’the tip of the iceberg’ – Senate duo | World news | theguardian.com
      ▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/16/nsa-revelations-privacy-breaches-udall-wyden

      Two US senators on the intelligence committee said on Friday that thousands of annual violations by the National Security Agency on its own restrictions were “the tip of the iceberg.”

      “The executive branch has now confirmed that the rules, regulations and court-imposed standards for protecting the privacy of Americans’ have been violated thousands of times each year,” said senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, two leading critics of bulk surveillance, who responded Friday to a Washington Post story based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

      “We have previously said that the violations of these laws and rules were more serious than had been acknowledged, and we believe Americans should know that this confirmation is just the tip of a larger iceberg.”

      On July 31, Wyden, backed by Udall, vaguely warned other senators in a floor speech that the NSA and the director of national intelligence were substantively misleading legislators by describing improperly collected data as a matter of innocent and anodyne human or technical errors.

      In keeping with their typically cautious pattern when discussing classified information, Wyden and Udall did not provide details about their claimed “iceberg” of surveillance malfeasance. But they hinted that the public still lacks an adequate understanding of the NSA’s powers to collect data on Americans under its controversial interpretation of the Patriot Act.

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      Argh, Free article limit . On peut récupérer le code source et lire, mais c’est moins confortable…

      “He said at one point that a lot of things aren’t clearly legal, but that doesn’t make them illegal” says a former military
      intelligence officer who served under Alexander at INSCOM.

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