Topic: SECURITY - on March 19, 2014 at 3:48:00 PM CET
Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet | Talk Video | TED
Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter,” he say, "because you never know when you're going to need them." Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 19, 2014 at 3:47:00 PM CET
NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.
A senior manager for the program compares it to a time machine — one that can replay the voices from any call without requiring that a person be identified in advance for surveillance.
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 19, 2014 at 3:46:00 PM CET
What Happens When the NSA Comes to Town
The NSA set up a facility in Utah, promising jobs and industry along with it. None of that came. Now, one surveillance scandal later, residents can vote to render the facility useless in the simplest way possible. Is it worth it?
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 19, 2014 at 3:45:00 PM CET
Das Cannabis-Verbot kostet Deutschland Milliarden Euro
Letztes Silvester stellten tausende von Amerikanern Zelte auf der Strasse auf und machten sich daran, dort bei Minusgraden zu campieren. Obwohl das klingt, als würde ein Weltuntergangskult eine gigantische Party zum Jüngsten Gericht feiern, waren diese mutigen Menschen nicht da, um das Ende einer Ära zu feiern—sondern den Beginn einer neuen.
Colorado wurde der erste Bundesstaat, der Ende 2012 den Freizeitgebrauch von Cannabis legalisierte. Nach langen bürokratischem Hin und Her begannen die ersten 20 Geschäfte ab dem 1. Januar 2014, legal Gras und Hasch zu verkaufen. Was hat die Gesetzgeber in Colorado dazu bewegt?
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