The video of the William Binney "The Government is Profiling You" talk at MIT is now online: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/csail/videos/21783-the-government-is-profiling-you
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Steve Weis <[email protected]> wrote: > There's an upcoming talk at MIT CSAIL that will be of interest to this > list: > > *"The Goverment is Profiling You"* > > *Speaker:* William Binney, Former National Security Agency, > Technical Director of the World Geopolitical and Military > Analysis Reporting Group, Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center > *Discussant:* Carol Rose, Executive Director, ACLU of Massachusetts > *Time:* Monday, November 19, 2012, 6 – 7.30 pm > *Location:* MIT, Stata Center Room 32-141, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA > *Sponsors:* > MIT Cryptography and Information Security Group > http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/ > Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference http://www.cfp.org > *Relevant URL:* > > http://www.whistleblower.org/program-areas/homeland-security-a-human-rights/surveillance/nsa-whistleblowers-bill-binney-a-j-kirk-wiebe > > *Abstract:* > While spreading an atmosphere of fear after 9/11, our government has > violated our laws, prevented the Congress and courts from doing their > Constitutional duty, created a surveillance state and concentrated power in > the executive, all in the name of keeping us safe. In an effort to reverse > these ongoing unconstitutional activities, William Binney revealed the > National Security Agency's massive domestic spying program, Stellar Wind, > which intercepts domestic communications without protections for US > citizens. Binney disclosed that NSA sought and received access to > telecommunications companies' domestic and international billing records. > > He told the public that, since 9/11, the agency has intercepted between 15 > and 20 trillion communications. Binney also revealed that the NSA concealed > Stellar Wind under the patriotic-sounding "Terrorist Surveillance Program," > in order to give cover to the warrantless surveillance program's violations > of Americans' constitutional rights. >
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