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koja [soylentnews.org] writes:

Edward Snowden gave testimony via video-link to Council of Europe at parliamentary hearing today.

Highlights:
* NSA spying on human rights organizations both within US borders and abroad
* usage of dragnet and data-mining for general law enforcement (not only for intelligence affairs)
* (popular level) description of used XKeyscore technology and it's capabilities

AFAIK this is the first time Edward Snowden testifies to any legislative organization.

http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.a sp?newsid=4960&lang=2&cat=5 [coe.int]

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