Liberty v. UK: European Court of Human Rights finds mass surveillance system violates the right to privacy (Digital Rights Ireland)

BM6G03PCIAAHgFPFurther revelations from documents supplied by Edward Snowden in tomorrow’s Guardian.

British intelligence used what one document calls “ground-breaking intelligence capabilities” to intercept the communications of visiting delegations.

• Setting up internet cafes where they used an email interception programme and key-logging software to spy on delegates’ use of computers;

• Penetrating the security on delegates’ BlackBerrys to monitor their email messages and phone calls;

• Supplying 45 analysts with a live round-the-clock summary of who was phoning who at the summit;

• Targeting the Turkish finance minister and possibly 15 others in his party;

•  Receiving reports from an NSA attempt to eavesdrop on the Russian leader, Dmitry Medvedev, as his phone calls passed through satellite links to Moscow.

 

GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians’ communications at G20 summits (Guardian)

Via James Bell

1010661_637897602906485_1148480646_nBroadhaven Bay within the past 30 minutes.

Shell to Sea sez:

Shell are laying the umbilical for pipeline – Six kayaks just gone out to show them they are not welcome in Broadhaven Bay [Co Mayo]. Shell security acting without lawful authority and have sunk one kayak so far…

Thanks Mark Malone

nelsonsnelsonpillarkids1Donal from Come Here To Me! sez:

Wondering if you can help us with this. I recently bought a
well-thumbed second hand book on Nelson’s Pillar. Opening second hand books you never know what will fall out, but this was a surprise.

A great picture of three kids on top of the Pillar in ’59, along with their first names and a rather rare view – the viewing platform itself.

I’m curious to know where they are today? Are they Dubs or visitors? Whoever wrote the details in pen called it ‘Nelson’s Column’, very unusual here and making me suspect they may be English visitors?

slaneSlane, Co Kildare Meath, yesterday

Pat Flanagan writes:

Bon Jovi take the stage. Stage was great even if the band wasn’t

 

Name that car, anyone?

Meanwhile…

-2Tony Burke writes:

Kenny Egan photobomb at Slane, from a mate’s Facebook

art

James Joyce’s Ulysses in five minutes by Tim Booth.

Rayne Booth writes:

My Dad, Tim Booth, made this short animation based on Ulysses some years ago (maybe 15 years ago). It is completely hand drawn and made just when computers were beginning to take over the animation thing. Isn’t it beautiful?
Today being a double whammy of Bloomsday and Father’s Day, I would really really love it if you could share this.
Tim Booth is a very talented man  (see also the 1970s psychedelic folk stylings of Dr Strangely Strage and his current vocation drawing Dan Dare for a  comic book magazine called ‘Spaceship way’) and has always been a great role model for me as an artist. (Also I forgot to send him a card!).

Tim Booth

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