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In this weeks episode, our guest is Rebecca Richards, NSAs director of privacy and civil liberties. We ask the tough questions: Is her title an elaborate hoax or is she the busiest woman on the planet? How long will it be before privacy groups blame the Seattle Seahawks loss on NSAs policy of intercepting everything? How do you tell an extroverted NSA engineer from an introvert? And, more seriously, now that acting within the law isnt apparently enough, how can an intelligence agency assure Americans that it shares their values without exposing all its capabilities?

In the weeks news, Jason Weinstein, Michael Vatis and I explore the DEAs license plate collection program and what it means, among other things, for future Supreme Court jurisprudence on location and the fourth amendment. We take on the WikiLeaks-Google flap and conclude that theres less there than meets the eye.

Jason celebrates a festival of FTC news. The staff report on the Internet of Things provokes a commissioner to dissent from feel-good privacy bromides. The FTC data security scalp count grows to 53, with more on the way. We discover that the FTC has aspirations to become the Federal Telecommunications Commission, regulating telecommunications throttling as well as cramming and apparently forcing the FCC into the business of regulating hotels. To be fair, we find ourselves rooting for the Commission as it brings the hammer down on a revenge porn site.

And Michael finds the key to understanding Chinas policies on cybersecurity and encryption.

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Germany's external spy agency saves tens of millions of phone records every day, according to leaked files that expose its NSA-style mass surveillance programme for the first time.

The Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND, Germany's foreign intelligence agency, collects metadata on 220 million calls every day, with at least some of this data passed onto the NSA.

Moreover,the information hoovered up includes records of phone numbers involved in a call or text message, the time of a communication and the length of a call (but, crucially, not the content of a communication).

BND carries out surveillance of international communications sent by both satellites and internet cables that pass through one of several key locations, Die Zeit Online reports.

Zeit Online has learned from secret BND documents that agency locations are involved in gathering huge amounts of metadata. Metadata vacuumed up across the world (220 million pieces a day) flows into BND branch offices in the German towns of Schningen, Reinhausen, Bad Aibling and Gablingen.

There, they are stored for between a week and six months and sorted according to still-unknown criteria.

But the data arent just collected; they are also used to keep tabs on, and track of, suspects.

The collection of telecoms traffic of German citizens would breach national data protection laws. The "classified files" omit a full explanation of either how this data is collected or how the call records of German citizens are filtered off before this information is stored.

The leaked intelligence docs revealed that approximately one per cent of the metadata trawl every day is stored for up to 10 years. The remainder is discarded after weeks or months.

Privacy group Access Now, which according to its website "defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world", called on the BND to curtail its NSA-style "collect-it-all" programme, with Germany being one of the most vocal international critics of NSA surveillance.

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Postponement of Poll: APC faults NSA
The All Progressives Congress has rejected the call by the National Security Adviser for the postponement of next month #39;s general elections. The party warns ...

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