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Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:48

Appelbaum: outsourcing of administration of phone bills to Israel is a way for them to get your data. Thats why they do it cheap #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:47

Appelbaum: yes, intelligence by NSA is given to authortarian regimes. #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:46

Watergate in the seventies was illegal, but computer break in by NSA is now legal #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:45

Appelbaum: this is not a post nine-eleven issue. NSA has been doing this long before #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:44

Appelbaum: it is better to be an immigrant in Germany then a citizen in the USA #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:44

Appelbaum: my partner woke up with men looking at here with night goggles. I moved to germany to protect myself #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:42

Appelbaum: what if NSA cs make a mistake while digging around in computers of nuclear plants and hospitals? #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:41

Appelbaum: yes, NSA digs into computers of EUcitizens and in those of nuclear powerplants, hospitals and members of parliament #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:40

Appelbaum on my questions: indeed 5 eyes countries help eachother out in order to circumvent their own national laws. #EPInquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:39

@ioerror #EPinquiry intel services help each other out to circumvent national laws

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:38

Appelbaum: those that are employed to keep us secure actually keep us unsecured to be able to spy on us #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:38

Appelbaum: 70% of espionage data comes from business. In other words, we can protect 70% if we deal different with compagnies #EPInquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:37

@ioerror #EPinquiry national intel services used to spy against other countries. Now all intel services together spy against citizens

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:34

Appelbaum: economic espionage is the key reason for espionage #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:32

Appelbaum: fundamentally the purpose of surveillance is control. It is not an end to totalitarism, it is totalitarism itself #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:32

So now back to Appelbaum: between Duncan Campbell and myself we have quite some files to share #EPInquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:18

#EPinquiry Follorou pressure and intimidation of journalists will increase as they expose surveillance practices by governments

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:16

#EPinquiry Follorou on mass transfer of intercepted data from French to US intelligence services, no control

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:12

Follorou: mass surveillance not illegal but a-legal. No judges exist in universe of mass spying #EPInquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:12

Follorou: these people conduct their surveillance business without worry they may be held to account one day #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:11

Follorou: Judges are out of the world of espionage. There bosses have taken care of that. #epinquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:09

Jacques Follorou, Le Monde: for intelligence agencies meta data is more important then listening in on phone conversations. #epinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:08

Follorou: these days metadata can reveal more about a person than the actual contents of their calls or messages #EPinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:59

@arusbridger please protect journalism. It is the only way you can have a public debat on surveillance matters #EPInquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:56

@arusbridger points out journalism itself may become target of mass surveillance #EPInquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:53

Rusbridger: If we in the West lock up our wistleblowers for 60 years, what signal do we send to regimes elsewhere? #epinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:51

@arusbridger if we do this to Eur and American whistleblowers, how can we encourage whistleblowers in other countries? #EPInquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:50

@arusbridger use of terror laws against journalists definitely has a chilling effect on media and whistleblowers #EPinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:40

@arusbridger on threats to media freedom. Makes urgent appeal to lawmakers to ensure legal protection #EPinquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:40

Rusbridger: the engineers that build this stuff will always be ahead of the law. #epinquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:39

Rusbridger: yes there is a balance between security and freedom but it seems that the security side always prevails #epinquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:37

Rusbridger: we have huge legal bills and had to enter into partnerships with other media in order to publish the story #epinquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:34

Rusbridger: we now work with US partners as the first amendment gives better protection than UK law. #epinquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:33

Rusbridger: we have acted responsibly in our reporting but run into the laws in various countries. #epinquiry

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:29

Nu in #epinquiry Guardian editor in chief Rusbridger. Webstreamed. europarl.europa.eu/news/nl/news-r…

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:25

#EPinquiry now video conf with @arusbridger

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:24

Many questions on mass surveillance, timetable #EPinquiry slipping. Videoconf with @arusbridger at 16.30 Answers by @ioerror & follorou aftr

Judith Sargentini Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:19

My question to Appelbaum: do you have indications that NSA has acces to Computers EU citizens via a botnet or otherwise? #epinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:17

@HFlautre : Un etat profond qui echappe aux changements politiques... A state within a state #EPinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:10

Blanket surveillance of citizens, secret laws, secret courts, secret budgets...banana republic? Dictatorship? No, the free world #EPinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:06

@BirgitSippelMEP how can we exercise parliamentary scrutiny if even EP is bugged and we cannot speak freely? #EPinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 16:02

@CarlosCoelhoPE sharing of this kind of data leaves us with zero democratic control over secret services #EPinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 15:42

No limits to (US) government surveillance of citizens. Whatever happened to good old checks&balances?....#EPinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 15:34

@ioerror : Echelon was kids' play compared to Prism-like programmes. #EPinquiry

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 15:29

#EPinquiry Follorou: government has near unlimited powers, hardly any effective checks and balances.

Sophie in 't Veld (D66) Thu 5 Sep 2013, 15:10

1st EP hearing on US snooping (NSA, Prism) with ao @ioerror #EPinquiry