Reactions to global surveillance disclosures | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

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00:02:05 1 Fallout
00:02:31 1.1 Allegations of false testimony
00:03:58 1.2 Declassification
00:05:29 1.3 Treatment of journalism
00:09:51 1.4 Forced landing of Bolivian President Morales' plane
00:10:42 1.5 Lavabit
00:12:25 1.6 Impact on trade
00:13:18 1.7 Allegations of adverse consequences for US and UK security
00:15:35 2 U.S. responses
00:15:41 2.1 Executive branch
00:21:25 2.2 Congress
00:25:33 2.3 Judiciary
00:27:02 2.3.1 Lawsuits
00:28:06 2.4 State governments
00:28:49 2.5 Public protests
00:29:04 2.5.1 "Restore the Fourth"
00:29:46 2.5.2 "Stop Watching Us"
00:30:29 2.5.3 "The Day We Fight Back"
00:31:58 2.6 Non-government organization
00:32:32 3 International response
00:32:42 3.1 Asia
00:32:51 3.1.1 China
00:33:20 3.1.1.1 Hong Kong
00:36:21 3.1.2 Malaysia
00:36:42 3.2 Europe
00:36:51 3.2.1 European Union
00:40:08 3.2.2 France
00:40:53 3.2.3 Germany
00:44:33 3.2.4 Italy
00:45:10 3.2.5 Spain
00:46:12 3.2.6 UK
00:48:16 3.3 North America
00:48:25 3.3.1 Mexico
00:48:52 3.4 Oceania
00:49:01 3.5 Australia
00:49:40 3.5.1 Indonesia
00:50:34 3.6 South America
00:50:43 3.6.1 Brazil
00:51:50 3.6.2 Ecuador
00:52:19 3.7 Other countries
00:52:40 3.8 Non-government organizations
00:52:50 3.8.1 Index on Censorship
00:53:26 3.8.2 United Nations
00:54:17 4 In popular culture



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The global surveillance disclosure released to media by Edward Snowden has caused tension in the bilateral relations of the United States with several of its allies and economic partners as well as in its relationship with the European Union. In August 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama announced the creation of "a review group on intelligence and communications technologies" that would brief and later report to him. In December, the task force issued 46 recommendations that, if adopted, would subject the National Security Agency (NSA) to additional scrutiny by the courts, Congress, and the president, and would strip the NSA of the authority to infiltrate American computer systems using "backdoors" in hardware or software. Geoffrey R. Stone, a White House panel member, said there was no evidence that the bulk collection of phone data had stopped any terror attacks.U.S. Army General Keith B. Alexander, then director of the NSA, said in June 2013, "These leaks have caused significant and irreversible damage to our nation's security." He added that "the irresponsible release of classified information about these programs will have a long-term detrimental impact on the intelligence community's ability to detect future attacks."In June 2014, Alexander's recently installed successor as the NSA's director, U.S. Navy Admiral Michael S. Rogers, said that while some terrorist groups had altered their communications to avoid surveillance techniques revealed by Snowden, the damage done overall did not lead him to conclude that "the sky is falling." Conceding there was no absolute protection against leaks by a dedicated insider with access to the agency's networks, Rogers said the NSA must nevertheless "ensure that the volume" of data taken by Snowden "can't be stolen again."