{"id":74623,"date":"2013-09-30T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-metadata-collection-puts-journalists-sources-at-risk\/74623\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T15:09:00","slug":"nsa-metadata-collection-puts-journalists-sources-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-metadata-collection-puts-journalists-sources-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Metadata Collection Puts Journalists&#8217; Sources at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:none\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/09\/30-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imce-images\/lavabit_0.jpg\" title=\"(Image: CNET)\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><span>(Image: CNET)<\/span><\/span>U.S. government surveillance of Americans&#8217; metadata threatens confidentiality and protection of journalists&#8217; sources, warns Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the email encryption software &#8220;Pretty Good Privacy&#8221; and president of secure communications firm Silent Circle.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2013\/sep\/30\/email-surveillance-could-reveal-journalists-sources-expert-claims\">exclusive interview<\/a> with <em>The Guardian<\/em>, this pioneer in internet privacy warned that the dangers of metadata surveillance go beyond mass-scale aggregation. Metadata can also be collected on an individual level to monitor and go after journalists&#8217; sources. He explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;re a journalist for the Guardian. You know that the Guardian sometimes writes stories that are of great interest to intelligence agencies. Well, what if the intelligence agencies want to see if a journalist at the Guardian is talking to a particular sensitive source?<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to do a lot of data mining for that. All you have to do is find that so-and-so, some government employee, is talking to some journalist at the Guardian. Then somebody&#8217;s in a heap of trouble.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>PGP was created by Zimmermann in 1991 as an encrypted, more private alternative to commercial email communications. He has developed a host of other privacy technologies as well, including an app for encryption smart phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>In early September <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/09\/05-7\">it was revealed<\/a> that the NSA had virtually defeated encryption safeguards to protect online privacy, by breaking code and controlling and manipulating technology companies.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">_____________________<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/p>\n<p>Copyright: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/09\/30-0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NSA Metadata Collection Puts Journalists' Sources at Risk\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image: CNET)U.S. government surveillance of Americans&#8217; metadata threatens confidentiality and protection of journalists&#8217; sources, warns Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the email encryption software &#8220;Pretty Good Privacy&#8221; and president of secure communications firm Silent Circle. In an exclusive interview with The Guardian, this pioneer in internet privacy warned that the dangers of metadata surveillance go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}