Nhà nước chính phủ Úc đã biết về chương trình PRISM nghe lén rình mò trộm cắp thông tin củaMỹ cả tháng trước khi Edward Snowden chính thức tố cáo... Nhưng đã im lặng đồng lõa với nhà nước Mỹ dấu kín quần chúng. Đài ABC đã dùng đạo luật "quyền tự do được biết thông tin" FOIA để có những chi tiết này hôm 9-10-2013.
Các dân biểu và nghị sĩ đảng Xanh với chủ trương tự do thông tin và chống rình mò nghe lén công dân đã chất vấn Nhà nước chính phủ Úc về sự kiện này... nhưng được giải thích vớ lý cớ rằng vấn đề này quan trọng không thuộc lãnh vực quần chúng! Nghe quen quen như những lý luận của cộng sản và độc tài vẫn thường xem quần chúng như con trẻ, chứ không phải của xã hội dân sự mở rộng dân chủ nơi giả thiết rằng dân đủ khôn ngoan làm chủ và đủ khôn ngoan ngay cả thành lập và kiểm sát chính phủ nhà nước ...
Thế nhưng bản tin này cũng chỉ đăng tải ngắn gọn...và hầu như quần chúng Úc đại đa số chẳng hề biết đến hay quan tâm rằng thông tin cá nhân thư từ điện thoại của họ đã và đang bị an ninh "Úc Mỹ" nghe lén... Con chó con mèo của hoàng tử Anh quốc vẫn quan trọng hơn..Ca sĩ và tài tử bị táo bón tiêu chảy mới mối quan tâmha2ng đầu của quần chúng!
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013 12:14 PM EST
PRISM Controversy: Australian Government COULD HAVE BEEN Edward Snowden
By Athena Yenko
The Australian Government could have been Edward Snowden, but they chose otherwise. Instead the government chose to continue to go behind its own citizens.
The Australian Government knew about the spying program PRISM months long before Edward Snowden made his expose'.
Upholding its media rights under the Freedom of Information laws, ABC had obtained documents revealing that the federal Government, through the Attorney-General's department, had a secret meeting about PRISM in March. This was around two months before Mr Snowden exposed information about the spying program.
This only means that the government had all the pertinent information to protect its citizens' privacy, but they chose to play blind to this.
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, who had long been an advocate for citizens over digital privacy rights, expressed that the timeline from the government's discovery to Mr Snowden's revelation was interesting.
"The Australian Government has tried to be completely opaque about this. Our attorneys-general, either of the Labor or the Liberal variety, will just wave their hands and say 'national security', and that's meant to make you stop asking questions," Mr Ludlam told ABC.
The documents obtained by ABC revealed Australia's intimate relationship with the United States. But the documents were discreet about information that can reveal the frequency by which the Australian intelligence and law enforcement agencies utilised the citizens' private data obtained by NSA.
Sean Rintel, a board member with the online liberties and rights organisation, Electronic Frontiers Australia, expressed intense dislike about the government.
"There's an awful lot that's not being talked about there. And the lack of oversight over these kinds of what we now know to be very-large-scale surveillance operations is the concerning thing about what's going on here. The documents were requested from 2007 and yet there's only four and they're very heavily redacted and one was not even allowed," Mr Rintel told ABC.
When asked to comment as to the effect of PRISM activities to the privacy of the Australians, The Office of the Attorney-General refused to comment and told ABC that the topic was not for media consumption.
Mr Ludlam said that the government was only making an excuse.
"This is the scandal that's broken open in the United States and the UK and other democracies around the world," he said.
The Australian Government knew about the spying program PRISM months long before Edward Snowden made his expose'.
Upholding its media rights under the Freedom of Information laws, ABC had obtained documents revealing that the federal Government, through the Attorney-General's department, had a secret meeting about PRISM in March. This was around two months before Mr Snowden exposed information about the spying program.
This only means that the government had all the pertinent information to protect its citizens' privacy, but they chose to play blind to this.
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, who had long been an advocate for citizens over digital privacy rights, expressed that the timeline from the government's discovery to Mr Snowden's revelation was interesting.
"The Australian Government has tried to be completely opaque about this. Our attorneys-general, either of the Labor or the Liberal variety, will just wave their hands and say 'national security', and that's meant to make you stop asking questions," Mr Ludlam told ABC.
The documents obtained by ABC revealed Australia's intimate relationship with the United States. But the documents were discreet about information that can reveal the frequency by which the Australian intelligence and law enforcement agencies utilised the citizens' private data obtained by NSA.
Sean Rintel, a board member with the online liberties and rights organisation, Electronic Frontiers Australia, expressed intense dislike about the government.
"There's an awful lot that's not being talked about there. And the lack of oversight over these kinds of what we now know to be very-large-scale surveillance operations is the concerning thing about what's going on here. The documents were requested from 2007 and yet there's only four and they're very heavily redacted and one was not even allowed," Mr Rintel told ABC.
When asked to comment as to the effect of PRISM activities to the privacy of the Australians, The Office of the Attorney-General refused to comment and told ABC that the topic was not for media consumption.
Mr Ludlam said that the government was only making an excuse.
"This is the scandal that's broken open in the United States and the UK and other democracies around the world," he said.
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