Twitter Says Government Info Requests on the Rise

Washington - Government requests for Twitter user information is on the rise, the messaging service said as it released figures while pressing for more transparency.

"Over the past 24 months, we've received a 66% increase in requests for account information coming from more than 45 different countries impacting over 6 400 accounts around the world," Twitter's global legal policy manager Jeremy Kessel said in a blog posting on Thursday.

"The majority of global government requests for account information still come from the US government (59% in the latest report)."  

US steps-up threats against Snowden and journalists

Congressional leaders and representatives of the US military-intelligence apparatus have stepped up their threats against Edward Snowden and the journalists who have worked with him to expose massive illegal spying by the National Security Agency (NSA).

At a hearing Tuesday of the House Intelligence Committee, Chairman Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, repeatedly suggested that journalists who received leaked NSA documents from Snowden and wrote articles about them were guilty of criminal acts. 

Snowden Confirms Spy Agency Launched False Flag Attacks and Used Honey Traps

We’ve repeatedly noted that the spy agencies aren’t just like giant peeping Tom’s, but they use their capabilities in mischievous offensive actions.

We’ve warned since 2009 (and see this) that the government could be launching cyber “false flag attacks” in order to justify a crackdown on the Internet and discredit web activists.

A new report from NBC News shows that the British spy agency used “false flag attacks” and other dirty tricks: 

Canada’s Avalanche of Surveillance Disinformation

Canada’s Conservative government and its intelligence agencies are vigorously defending the state’s arrogation of the power to spy on Canadians’ electronic communications.

For months they sought to obscure under an avalanche of disinformation, half-truths, and lies the fact that the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) has been collecting and analyzing the metadata of Canadians’ telephone calls, text messages, and internet use since at least 2005.