We would consider 90% a generous estimation.
Nine out of 10 users in NSA-intercepted conversations are not original targets
06 Jul 2014 Nine out of 10 internet users found in a cache of NSA-intercepted conversations were not the original targets — but landed in the agency’s net anyway. The Washington Post revealed the stunningly high percentage of innocent web crawlers snared in the National Security Administration’s web after a four-month examination of documents turned over by ex-agency contractor Edward Snowden…One analyst described a day’s work: “1 target, 38 others on there.”
Germany arrests alleged double agent accused of spying on Berlin’s NSA inquiry for the U.S.
04 Jul 2014 German authorities have arrested a man identified by media as a German intelligence officer who allegedly passed secrets to the U.S. German media warned that if the man is found guilty, it would be “the biggest scandal involving a German-American double agent since the war,” The Daily Telegraph reported. Federal prosecutors said that a 31-year-old German was arrested on July 2 on suspicion of spying for an unidentified foreign power.
German agent arrested for spying for US
04 Jul 2014 Police in Germany have arrested a man on suspicion of spying for the United States. The arrested man is a German citizen and a member of the country’s own BND intelligence service. German media warned that if the case against him is proved, “it will be the biggest scandal involving a German-American double agent since the war”. It is believed the arrested man is suspected of spying on a German parliamentary enquiry into the NSA affair.
XKeyscore exposed: How NSA tracks all German Tor users as ‘extremists’
04 Jul 2014 The NSA has been revealed to mark and consider potential “extremists” all users of the internet anonymizer service Tor…Searching for encryption software like the Linux-based operating system Tails also places you on the NSA grid, as Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz revealed on the German site Tagesschau. The report is based on analysis of the source code of the software used by NSA’s electronic surveillance program XKeyscore.
NSAssociate Google begins yanking news articles in Europe
03 Jul 2014 Should Google be the arbiter on what is and is not publicly available on the Web? [Well, we know they do that *daily* with the CLG Newsletter, that's for sure!] What happens when a person’s request to be anonymous conflicts with the freedom of the press? These are some of the questions being raised as Google begins to remove search results in its first implementation of the European Union’s so-called right-to-be-forgotten ruling. The ruling lets people in the European Union submit a form to Google requesting that they be removed from its search results if they feel the information on them is outdated or reveals personal details they want to keep private. A team at Google then determines whether that person’s corporation’s right to be anonymous is more important than keeping that information front and center in its search results for ease of public access.