More than 500 of the world’s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed by a new international charter, the Guardian reports.
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Dude / December 10, 2013
they will go mad with so much data – the spy guys
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mechanic / December 10, 2013
Don’t you know that search engines are so powerful today they have developed very many advanced ways of searching exactly what they wanted. Snowdens are contracted to do all that dirty work. So much for ‘democracy and Human Rights’ of the so-called Inter National community.
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Native Vedda / December 11, 2013
mechanic …….. That is one reason as to why Gota should be holding his breath. ………. Eye in the sky and electronic intelligence could have captured every bit of information related to war crimes before, during and after the war. ……… You should arrange Pope to hear Gota’s confessions, in return for absolution. ……….
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Abhaya Premawardena / December 11, 2013
wow great .. not it will be stopped :)
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Mahulchandran or mal c Spencer / December 11, 2013
In an ever increasingly criminal world especially in relation to the ruling elites, I have no problem with everyone being under surveillance commencing with the top level master crook elements of all ruling elites the world over and then filtering down to the medium, small time and cottage industry crooks that we all are for our survival and thrival as a super species that subjugates all other species.
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Spring Koha / December 11, 2013
So, Rousseau was right all along! We can now rephrase his famous saying to “Man is born free, but everywhere he is spied upon”. And even lowly me will say ‘this too we will overcome, if not with the keyboard, with the pen, and even go back to scratching on the walls of our caves if the nosy buggers come poking’.
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Native Vedda / December 11, 2013
Spring Koha ….. What a spy web we weave?
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Fathima Fukushima / December 11, 2013
SL should do same.
TAP all Tamils’ communication.
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