Americans value privacy over security - poll

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A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that most Americans are not impressed with Barack Obama's efforts to restore trust in government in the wake of disclosures about secret surveillance programs.

The poll finds that Americans increasingly are placing personal privacy ahead of being kept safe from terrorists. More than 60 percent of respondents say they value privacy over anti-terror protections. That's up slightly from 58 percent in a similar poll in August.

NSA's goal is elimination of everyone's privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU.

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The NSA’s ultimate goal along with its UK partner, the GCHQ, is to eliminate individual privacy worldwide, journalist Glenn Greenwald has told an EU inquiry.

Ex-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies before EU Parliament over NSA

Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist known for publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks, is testifying before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via video connection. He is participating in an inquiry into the NSA’s surveillance on EU citizens. Follow live updates here.

The inquiry was set up to discuss ratcheting up the security of the internet and telephone networks in the European Union.

Snowden is also expected to testify before the Civil Liberties Committee in January as part of the inquiry.

 RT

Privacy Fraud: NSA can track BlackBerry, iOS, and Android data ( Full Update)

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The US National Security Agency (NSA) snoops on people by accessing user data from smart phones manufactured by all companies, new documents reveal. American spies can tap into iOS, Android, and even BlackBerry systems.

The US spying agency can get access to such data as contact lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information about where a user has been, said the documents obtained by Der Spiegel.

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Intrusions In Privacy Will Continue Despite PRISM Being Uncovered - Expert

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This weekend the leaker of classified documents from the NSA revealed himself to the public. It turned out the person behind the leak was Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old ex-technical assistant for the CIA. Paul Rozenzweig, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and Patrice McDermott, an executive director of OpentheGovernment.org, gave their exclusive comment to the Voice of Russia regarding the Snowden case and the overall scope of surveillance in America.

Over the weekend Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting defended and clarified President Obama's stance on the program, known as PRISM.

“He expressed concern about some of the lack of oversight and safeguards associated with programs in the past – for instance, when you had warrantless wiretapping that did not have that full oversight of a judge. What he's done as President is say which programs are necessary, which capabilities are necessary to protect the American people and which aren't.”

Under President the government has been collecting vast amounts of data from Verizon phone records as well as web services.