The authorities of the country advise citizens to refuse using Facebook so that not to become an American intelligence service’ informants

Moscow. July 11. INTERFAX.RU - Venezuelans citizens are urged to refuse using Facebook, the social network. According to the Minister of the country's prisons Mary Iris Varela’s words, using the world's largest social network one can become a foreign spy.

"Venezuelans! Turn off your Facebook accounts so that not to become unwilling US informants. Please pay attention to the Snowden’ case" - wrote the minister in his Twitter.

A former agent of CIA the U.S. National Security Agency, Edward Snowden revealed the secret data about the PRISM system, with the help of which the U.S. intelligence agencies have access to the correspondence and personal data of the Facebook, Google, Apple and other large Internet company’s users in the U.S.

Snowden also revealed some details about U.S. intelligence spying on foreign partners from Japan, the EU and other countries. U.S. intelligence agencies, in particular, intercepted telephone calls and messages from the EU Delegation in New York and Washington, and were even able to get access to communication systems of the administration buildings of the European Union in Brussels.

The information leakage organized by Snowden has caused a major international scandal. The U.S. authorities accused the former intelligence officer of theft of government property, unauthorized disclosure of the information about the national security and the deliberate transmission of the intelligence service’ security data to outsiders.

Location of Snowden, who left the country in May and came to Hong Kong, is not known. In June, Snowden flew to Moscow, and now according to some information, he is still in the transit area of ​​the airport "Sheremetyevo".

Facebook - the world's largest social network - regularly suffers from attempts to censor it. The access to Facebook is limited by Syria, for several times, it became the victim of Internet censorship in China, the social network also is blocked in Iran and Egypt. Also Facebook was repeatedly blocked in Tajikistan.



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Seizure of Internet by repressive government must be prevented

A global seizure of Internet by repressive governments must be prevented, writes John Kampfner for The Financial Times. According to his point of view the democracy should secure the most important freedom.



The author of the note refers to a recent study by the U.S. NGO Freedom House, according to which freedom of speech around the world is going through a serious crisis during last ten years.

The Freedom House list included such countries as Mali, Russia, China, Venezuela, Ukraine, South Africa, Ecuador and Thailand. “The economic crisis instead of leading to greater transparency, brought the rich and powerful people to a censorship ", - said Kampfner and stated Greece as an example, where journalist was arrested for publishing information about the higher ranks, hiding from taxes.

Concerning the observer’s words, censorship can be introduced for different aims – for example to force those who do not agree to keep silent or to stop investigations of corruption. Authorities consider Internet as the most dangerous tool. “The more technology gives us a possibility to speak –the more governments are afraid”, - said Kampfner. “"Democracies play a key role in the prevention of global Internet seizure by such authorities", - he added.



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Russia will not get the sovereign right to regulate the Internet

ITU ( The International Telecommunication Union) published the regulations text, that had been signed by the countries-members of this Union at the conference in Dubai. This regulation had not been changed since 1988 and it was expected that it will include several points about the Internet in the future. A number of countries, including Russia offered to allow ITU countries, according to this document, to regulate domain data and addresses in their countries. China, Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Alger, Bahrain was Russian allies, but their offer faced with a serious opposition.

“New regalement offers countries to develop their position according to the Internet question, it means technical issues and ITU state policy”, - said the press service of Russian Ministry of Communications on Friday. The resolution of ITU members charged MC general secretary with taking measures to allow RMC to play an active role in broadband communicating and Internet model developing, as it is said in the report. “The paragraph 3.8 reflects and juridically consolidate current situation in this sphere”, said the MC representative, “but the delegations from Canada, Australia and several other countries didn’t agree with it”.

The offer to give rights to national Internet regulating caused a kickback among the trade members. Google accused some countries of the intention to “get the Internet control”, that will cause( according to their opinion) a censorship. Though, during the conference Hamadoun Touré the MC general secretary said that the matter is not about the Internet contents controling and the Internet governance. The document is oriented on technical standards development for International telephony. It is not right to consider the ITU conference as a discussions of the Internet freedom, proves Andrey Kolesnikov, the president of the Coordinating Internet Domain Centre.

According to the information from Russian ministry of communications more than 100 countries signed the regulation. But the USA, Australia, Canada and a number of EU countries didn’t agree with this regulation, despite the most arguable articles about the Internet have been excluded. Countries that didn’t sign the contract will not follow this recommendations concerning issues about roaming, Internet etc.




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