Edward Snowden and asylum in Jamaica?

[Don1]

Islandman: Your post inclusive of the quote is top drawer.
Weh Don1 deh?
The world moves!

I agree with I'Man...Kids do have different sensibilities from their elders regarding many issues...including privacy.

However my agenda is not determined by the proclivities of the immature young. Over the years I've evolved beyond that

[Willi]

Don, I 100% support your position here.

Karl a fool with imminent danger...

[Exile]

Er....'proclivities' again? A whe yu and Historian eat?

[Karl]

Cho, man!

[Peter R]

LOL and I still say it sounds like a part of the female anatomy ...

[Don1]

lol

[Don1]

Don, I 100% support your position here.

Karl a fool with imminent danger...

Danger clear and present

[Don1]

Mi juss ah si Histy proclivities. Fi mi proclivities first fi im own by a day ar suh : )

[Jangle]

Seedless olives

[Karl]

Perhaps I just like to live on the edge?

Seriously, Willi: You cannot hope to enjoy the modern creature comforts without giving up tremendous private info. ...that is the nature of the beast chasing greater and greater 'creature comforts'. It is the info given that opens the door to the 'great creature comforts'.

[Sir X]

Brazil Voices ‘Deep Concern’ Over Gathering of Data by U.S.

By LARRY ROHTER

Published: July 7, 2013


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RIO DE JANEIRO — The international tensions stirred up by recent revelations about American spying spread to yet another nation on Sunday, when Brazil’s foreign minister expressed “deep concern” over the issue and said his government would press the United Nations to take action that “preserves the sovereignty of all countries.”



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Reacting to a local news report asserting that the United States has been collecting data on telephone calls and e-mail traffic in Brazil, the foreign minister, Antonio Patriota, said Sunday that his government would pursue United Nations measures “to impede abuses and protect the privacy” of international Internet communications to “guarantee cybersecurity that protects the rights of citizens.”

Mr. Patriota said that his government was taking action because of its “deep concern at the report that electronic and telephone communications of Brazilian citizens are being the object of espionage by organs of American intelligence.” For the same reason, he added, Brazil has also “asked for clarifications” from the American government.

The report on the American monitoring of Brazilian communications was published by O Globo, the main daily newspaper here, and said it was based on documents from Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive contractor for the National Security Agency. His disclosures have ruffled relations between the United States and an array of its allies and adversaries, including China, Russia, Europe and a widening swath of Latin America.

In a posting Sunday for the British newspaper The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald, one of the writers of the O Globo article, said that “the N.S.A. has for years systematically tapped into the Brazilian telecommunications network and indiscriminately intercepted, collected and stored the mail and telephone records of millions of Brazilians.”

Later Sunday, Brazilian news organizations began reporting that the country’s Federal Police and national communications authority would investigate to see if companies here cooperated.

American officials here declined to comment on the report. But the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a statement saying that “we have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations.”

Any American interference in communications here would be a delicate matter, even if Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, were not scheduled to make a state visit to the United States in October. The United States supported and aided the coup that brought the military to power here in 1964, beginning a 21-year dictatorship that routinely tapped the telephones and intercepted the mail of both Brazilians and foreigners thought to be in opposition to the government.