UK Spies on American Data without Warrants; Snowden: Civil Disobedience Must be Disobedience

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British Spy Agency: We Don’t Need Warrant for Americans’ Data. We Have ‘Arrangements’. As detailed in a document (pdf) posted by Privacy International, the arrangements appear to serve as legal justification for the practice, stating that it not a circumvention of law when “it is not technically feasible” to get a warrant “and it is necessary and proportionate for the Intelligence Services to obtain those communications.”

Snowden: Civil Disobedience Must Be Disobedience.  “We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that’s enshrined in our Constitution and in our values,” Snowden declares. “We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it’s also about revolutionary ideas. It’s about the principles that we hold to be representative of the kind of world we want to live in.”

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