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This is where we are headed – every electronic transaction and every electronic message included in the Government’s data retention plans.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Internet is a CIA front, and he wants his own. If he gets his way, the Internet will fragment into national or regional ghettoes.

More than three quarters of Australians do not approve of the Government accessing phone and !nternet records without a warrant.

Local Internet rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has joined a global protest against mass government surveillance.

US President Barack Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies has released its report. It recommends many changes, but some say it doesn’t go far enough. And they are only recommendations – nothing has yet changed.

I’m disgusted, and I’m not alone. The US military industrial complex has betrayed us all.

Internet encryption vendors are deliberately weakening their products to make it easier for government surveillance agencies to monitor content.

An amendment that would mean less Government surveillance of citizens has been narrowly defeated on the floor of the US House of Representatives.

First we had Bradley Manning, then Julian Assange and now we have Ed Snowden. All these young, intelligent, idealistic, truth-seeking, technologically proficient whistleblowers are being targeted by “free-world” governments, egged on by their cheer leaders, for lifelong incarceration, torture and even extra judicial assassination. Enough is enough!