"A new push to encrypt email, keeping messages free from government snooping, is gaining momentum." 

Finally something is being changed and large browsing companies are standing up to the NSA and others. 

"A major catalyst for email encryption were revelations about widespread online surveillance in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor."

This shows that the "traitor" Edward Snowden has done exactly what he wanted to achieve. In a very responsible and mature way he has managed the world online to begin to change the way they treat privacy. He alone has done this, the actions of one man. 

This is a huge stepping stone when it comes to privacy and as I have been saying for months a very neccisary one. It was a long time coming but we are finally getting to a place were peoples privacy online is starting to be respected.  

Laws in Germany have now been changed to try and stop the tide of digital information going to the NSA. 

But not only is the encrytion going to be a good thing, it is going to be easy for email users and internet users worldwide. "Our vision is to make encryption and privacy mainstream by making it easy to use," Stockman told AFP. "There's no installation. Everything happens behind the scenes automatically." This means that it will just be like writing a normal email, exept now you don't have to worry about it going into the wrong hands. 

"The MPs say the current system was designed in a pre-internet age when a person's word was accepted without question. "It is designed to scrutinise the work of George Smiley, not the 21st-century reality of the security and intelligence services," said committee chairman, Keith Vaz. "The agencies are at the cutting edge of sophistication and are owed an equally refined system of democratic scrutiny. It is an embarrassing indictment of our system that some in the media felt compelled to publish leaked information to ensure that matters were heard in parliament.""

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/09/edward-snowden-mps-commons-report-spying

In the light of all the Snowden discoveries, we have found out many secrets about security agencies, and by all means this article shows that it is not just America, and the fact that it is in England and very real also. This can not be the case, and the change must start in America, where the issue of privacy was first uncovered, and Obama making talking about the NSA's private dealings punishable is just a step in the wrong direction. There needs to be some sort of overhaul of personnel, there needs to be some change in organization, but there is not such thing. Despite the public uproar no policies have been changed and no one is doing anything to change any of that. The change is well overdue and it should happen. 
  

I know I have been complaining about the NSA a lot recently, and that may make some people angry. Don't get me wrong the NSA are not the only people spying and destroying our personal privacy, but they are the most ignorant (they are the most hypocritical, and they are the only ones who have managed to get found out on a global scale); that is why i complain about them, the hypocrisy and the fact that in America a organisation like the NSA can exist. 
http://rt.com/news/156316-merkel-obama-russia-sanctions/ 

"Germany’s Chancellor Merkel is in the White House for the first time since it was revealed the NSA monitored her personal communications. During bilateral talks with Barack Obama, Merkel is expected to broach sanctions on Russia and US spying."

Barack Obama will be confronted by the German Chancellor about hacking her phone in the days to come and I am just interested how they are going to prove the hacking of Merkel's mobile telephone was legitimate and was an actual threat to america via probable cause... the answer is they cannot prove that she actually threatened america...... so why? Not that it is just the NSA as you can see the russians are also very involved in spying, the the americans are just get caught more, due to incompetence.  

The one piece of news that I have actually thought that the NSA are taking a step in the right direction was this 
"I tell the [NSA] workforce out there as the new guy, let’s be honest with each other, the nation has lost a measure of trust in us," -Admiral Michael Rogers

It is at time like these when i think that it is indeed possible for the NSA to change but then I take a look at all the things that we know about them and all the steps that they are not taking to improve. Yeah the NSA says things, but they don't care about the individuals, they just want nothing you do to be private anymore, and that is why their an organization that has to be stopped. 

It has been a while since I have written about the wrongs being commited under the cover of protecting us, but once again I am here to shine the light on what is in fact actually going on. 

Ok, Ok, lets get started with the first rediculous statement said by top NSA officials. The former CEO of the NSA said that the Snowden leaks "significant disservice to the worldwide health of the Internet.". Are you serious? Seriously Mr ex CEO of a legal spying company? In the internet you rarely here of people being this stupid, the real thing that id a disservice to the worldwide health of the Internet was the spying on innocent people illegally by the government, thats what was a "disservice". What the Smug Ex NSA CEO does not tell you is that the NSA went through back doors with companies so that they could stockpile personal information, and yet America is the land of the "free". 

America spies on innocent people and even its allies and wonders why people are slow to forgive them, Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, noted Friday that she has said the issue of NSA surveillance can't be resolved with one visit and so "concrete results in this area can't be expected".  The american government is so naive that instead of listening to what snowden has to say and realising that the NSA is unconstitutional everyone seems to want to be talking about how it "helped the terrorists". Why can't we realize that he did this not to help terrorist, but to show us that the government is violating our rights, isn't that just as important. Well not to Hillary Clinton apparently, who does not give a single damn about the american citizens rights. America Land of the free.  

Google makes NSA look good!
In an Attempt to try and stop the NSA from spying on the private emails. Google an establishment not famed for its security of clients is trying to stop people spying on private information. This makes one realize that believe it or not google is the lesser of two evils in this situation, as surprising as it sounds it is true. "All messages sent and received through Gmail are now encrypted, making them extremely difficult to intercept" (mail online) 
How can we defend an organisation when even google are taking precautions to try and stop the NSA and their online spying obsession. 

This is how we treat the innocent people of America and in fact the world. A whole society based on mistrust and no privacy. "Move follows revelations in documents leaked last year by Edward Snowden that spy agency can look at private messages"

"Reports have indicated that the NSA was hacking into fiber optic cables used by tech companies to send data to and from data servers scattered around. The trouble is that the data sent through these cables is usually not encrypted, which allowed NSA spies easy access to the information being sent."
Why is it that after all this time and complaining about the unconstitutionality of the NSA and how spying on innocent people is wrong they are still doing it TODAY, RIGHT this SECOND! How is it that although people are complaining nothing is being done to try and stop the NSA. Why is no one taking any notice of this and trying to stop it? "The National Security Agency has defended its work against Edward Snowden's allegations - but also pledged more transparency about its work" 

The Agency defends its work? How can it defend its work? If they want to have more transparency how come we still don't know what they are doing, and saying they are doing it for national security can be said to almost anything, doesn't mean it justifies taking away the liberties of innocent people. 

 “I believe that what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business. Can a single warrant be applied to millions of Americans’ emails, cell phones and credit cards?” (Rand Paul) 
 I think that this it a good quote because it is totally true and that one warrant cannot apply to so many millions of people, and like I have undoubtedly said earlier most of which are innocent. The fact that an influential political is saying this and is calling it unacceptable could be just to promote his popularity with the people and taking advantage of the current presidents stupidity. But Rand Paul does have a few very valid points that do show how stupid the whole NSA thing really is. 
 "According to the paper, the NSA is currently spying on 320 high-level targets in Germany, “mainly decision-makers from the field of politics, but also from business”. In particular, this select group includes those close to the chancellor. Specifically, the paper names Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière (Christian Democratic Union, CDU), who was also the target of an NSA wiretap when he was defense minister." (Fars News-agency) 
What is this??? Another example that america can not even trust some of its closest and strongest allies??? Imagine if this was the other way around and Germany or in fact any one of americas allies was spying on american politicians then there would be uproar throughout the united states but because for some reason the USA has given themselves some right that they are protectors of liberty its ok for them to spy. If one of americas allies had been spying on america, I am sure that war would not be that far behind, because standing up to the united states of america is such a crime these days. Who gave them this right to spy on the world when they can't even solve the social problems of there own country. If the american way was so great how come the Afghan president is speaking so strongly against the USA??? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNmJ0SRKDO8

When it comes to some aspects of the american government these statements become truer and truer 

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/03/07/rand-paul-speech-n1805752

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57620081-83/wikileaks-julian-assange-nsa-critics-got-lucky-because-agency-had-no-pr-strategy/

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/08/353845/nsa-leaks-shows-us-cold-war-mentality/

The age of 24 hour a day surveillance of everyone in our land is not too far away according to Julian Assange, "The NSA and GCHQ will soon have the ability to spy on the entire planet, as their capabilities double every 18 months". This seems kind of scary that such a capability is even possible. This is when the word privacy becomes a myth and nothing anyone does will be private, and things we do not want the world know will be available for people who maybe we would not like to know it. No man or institution can consider themselves to be "god" or above the law, and the NSA along with other such organisation. I go off on the premiss that man is naturally good, and that people are actually naturally innocent and that the spying of predominately innocent people is wrong and immoral. Somehow they have the premiss that they are justified in spying on the populace. Does this seem right that we use the advances in our technology for greed and the general spying of the general populace. Not only this but the NSA wants to end freedom of speech which is the first amendment? So people who are in charge don't need to apply to the law? The people upholding our laws don't even have to abide by them? Is this what our world has come to? That people are divided by government, the people who we vote for handicap us by taking away our laws from us. And just how effective is this?? are they really protecting us?? 

an with all these violations of Privacy what do they achieve??? 

The answer is nothing, they spy on innocent people but they don't catch the bad guys! What is up with that? 

Why are they spying on us in excess and STILL not getting the bad guys?

Don't claim to be doing your job by spying on people and then don't do it well. 

If your gonna break the law and spy on people, spy on the right ones!

Why would Snowden give all this up, to become a whistle-blower?
The simple answer is he wouldn't give up this perfect life, on a salary 4 times the average American income, with a house is Hawaii (which is one of the most popular tourist destinations and is famed for its beauty), Edward Snowden before he unveiled the NSA's dark truth, could have had almost whatever he liked. No man would give up on a salary has high as his was, and life a of plenty as he had, unless he saw or came across something that he thought was very important. Why would someone want to be on the run from the American government for the rest of his life, never being able to rest a night properly, going from country to country, never being able to return to his home-country? First of all in the United States of America the constitution made by the founding fathers (Benjamin Franklin, John Adams,  Thomas Paine) to protect the liberty of America and its occupants. The spying on all people nationwide, and in fact wold-wide, if the hacking of Angela Merkel's Mobile telephone turns out to be true,  is very wrong and a complete violation of everything the constitution stands  for. So the NSA is in direct violation of the constitution which is what all people in America have to stick to.... How does that work? The NSA can violate the constitution but normal people get arrested if they even have a minor infraction of it. Why is it so important for normal people to obied by the rules of the Constitution if it can be bypassed by government institution that people didn't vote for to spy on them??? Why would hacking phones, looking through emails and texted of INNOCENT PEOPLE be for the good of the nation? I think I am rambling a little at this point so I'll bring it back to Mr Snowden, why is he a traitor for pointing out that a government institution is doing something that is unconstitutional? This brings up the possibility that some can ignore the rules of the lands when it suits them..then is the United States of America really the land of the free if some can ignore the rules when it suits them? Edward Snowden did not destabilise the USA, the NSA along with US government have broken the rules of the land they supposedly uphold. The USA has no right to call Edward Snowden a traitor if in fact he is a bigger constitutional patriot than the entire US government. Traitor no, Hero maybe. The whole media storm about him being a traitor is just a smoke screen to stop the public from realising the unlawful way the US government is spying on us through our computers.

This man had the courage to stand up against his country when he thought they were doing something wrong, and some consider him a traitor. He should be regarded as a hero, who shed the light on the truth behind what the US government is doing.

Obama's dream.

STOP SPYING ON US!!

"The US government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in a massive illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001. Since this was first reported on by the press and discovered by the public in late 2005, EFF has been at the forefront of the effort to stop it and bring government surveillance programs back within the law and the Constitution."

Turns out that the US Government has been spying not only on innocent US citizens under the cover of counter terrorism and the claim that it is in the protection in of the country. Not only has the NSA been going through American citizens personal Information but they have also been spying on citizens beyond america’s borders. WHAT??? Not only is this unconstitutional of the government of the supposed land of the free but you do not spy on you allies in Europe, and you especially do not hack the German Prime Ministers Mobile phone! The NSA has created a Global Surveillance state and it is destroying what little trust the world has with the USA that still remains. The US government then calls Edward Snowden a traitor and a criminal just because he showed the world that the US is doing something illegal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JqxB6C1bRo
"NSA Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation." Electronic Frontier Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2014.
"Interest Rates, NSA Spying, Obama and Teacher Testing!" Cagle Post RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014.

Social Networking and google

Looking at your Facebook or your twitter or for a select few people google plus is a normal daily thing. Many of us feel unnatural when we go without one of these site for more than a day, some feel slightly weird even if they go without Facebook for more than a few hours. However is this good? We do not know what these sights do with all this information they have on us, they have no obligation to keep all our personal information...personal, this is a problem. What do they do with this. Well the fact is none of what we put as private is in fact private. If we write anything on Google Plus of Facebook that is personal, a poem or a song, it does not belong to the person who wrote it, no it belongs to Facebook or Google Plus, so if this song was catchy and or this poem was good so and one got the poem published or the song got played on the radio, Facebook or google would be liable to sue you. Does this seem right or fair to you? Does this normal for a modern day democracy? unfortunately modern day media companies like these can take advantage of their addictive nature and make us not realize that our ideas could be stolen by billion dollar companies who make billions of dollars of revenue each year. This brings me to a slightly different subject of does this infringe on the freedom of the internet, after all the internet is supposedly a place where people could become artist within their own rights (according to Steve Jobs old CEO of Apple), a place where people can become inventive, and what good is this when peoples creativity can be so easily stolen by billion dollar Companies that don't need the money really. The internet should be something where people can be free to explore and create beauty. This does not seem fair for all the people who have the ability to be create but don't want to due to the fact that getting what they have created to a wider audience via Facebook or Google plus is just not possible if what they have created can so easily cost them so much money, in the form of being sued. The power of these companies if anything disrupts the inventiveness of the public, and the common man. The internet is not a free place if this carries on.

ALL Powerful google, and other companies (social networks)

Do we really want one company having so much power over us? And make us have opinions over things that are not our opinions? the fact that google can control what adverts you see what comes up when you search things, what things are deemed suitable and unsuitable. They for some reason have this power to decide all these quite important things for us, without asking us they do this for us and in our subconscious (according to research). In this blog i will talk about the supreme power that some companies have over us, and whether they have the right to abuse these powers.

"9to5Google: Beyond Good and Evil." 9to5Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Feb. 2014.