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Former WikiLeaks Volunteer Birgitta Jonsdottir Believes Her Rights On Twitter Was Violated By U.S. Government
Birgitta Jónsdóttir is a former WikiLeaks volunteer and is a member of Parliament in Iceland. Recently the courts in the U.S. decided to push for access to her Twitter account because of her involvement with WikiLeaks. Jónsdóttir is furious with the decision of the U.S. government and has decided to take her case to the Council of Europe.
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Julian Assange Loses Sweden Extradition Appeal
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has lost a high court appeal extradition to Sweden to face rape charge allegations. Lord Justice Thomas and Mr. Justice Ouseley handed down the decision for Assange’s appeal against a European arrest warrant that was issued by prosecutors in Sweden. Two Swedish women filed rape and sexual assault charges against Assange during his visit to Stockholm in August 2010.
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WikiLeaks Threatens Those Who Leak Internal Documents With A Fine Of $20 Million
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now making members of his team sign a nondisclosure agreement that WikiLeak’s own leaked material is their property. “You accept and agree that the information disclosed, or to be disclosed to you pursuant to this agreement is, by its nature, valuable proprietary commercial information,” states the agreement, “the misuse or unauthorized disclosure of which would be likely to cause us considerable damage.” The unauthorized disclosure of WikiLeaks documents will have a penalty of 12 million British pounds ($20 million). Leaks to the press by WikiLeaks loses them the ability to sell the documents to publishers. [Wired]
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Former WikiLeaks Volunteer Jacob Appelbaum Criticizes WSJ’s WikiLeaks Competitor For Insecure SSL Encryption
Yesterday I wrote about a new website called SafeHouse. SafeHouse is The Wall Street Journal’s WikiLeaks competitor. The Wall Street Journal said that those who submit whistle-blower documents to SafeHouse will be guaranteed anonymity through encryption. Jacob Appelbaum, a former WikiLeaks volunteer, and a developer of the Tor anonymity network, immediately noticed flaws with SafeHouse.
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Wall Street Journal Launches WikiLeaks Competitor SafeHouse
WikiLeaks is best known for containing whistle-blower documents that are confidential in nature. WikiLeaks provided anonymity to those who submitted the documents. WikiLeaks grew in popularity and journalists started
thinking to themselves why they didn’t come up with the idea. Most publications ask for tips from readers without guaranteeing anonymity. The Wall Street Journal is launching a new portal that has a similar concept.
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Julian Assange: Facebook, Google, and Yahoo! Has Built In Interfaces Developed For U.S. Intelligence [VIDEO]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is awaiting a trial in Sweden for sexual assault charges and he was recently interviewed by Russia Today. He gave his opinion on the political unrest in Egypt and Libya during the interview. He had especially criticized Facebook as being the most appalling spy machine ever.
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Steven Spielberg Buys Rights To WikiLeaks Film
Movie director Steven Spielberg has acquired the rights to make a film about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Some of the names that came up to play Assange include Macauly Culkin, Orlando Bloom, and Tilda Swinton.
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PayPal Cuts Off Support Account For WikiLeaks Whistle-Blower Bradley Manning
eBay payment subsidiary PayPal.com has cut off a support account for U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. The account that was frozen belonged to the Courage to Resist organization. The Courage to Resist partnered with the Bradley Manning Support Network for raising funds in support of Manning. Manning was one of the whistle-blowers of government documents that was leaked on to Wikileaks. “We’ve been in discussions with PayPal for weeks, and by their own admission there’s no legal obligation for them to close down our account,” said Loraine Reitman of the Bradley Manning Support Network (Support Network). “This was an internal policy decision by PayPal.” [BradleyManning.org]
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Alan Dershowitz Defending Wikileaks For Twitter Subpoena
Wikileaks has hired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz as an adviser about how to handle the Justice Department’s subpoena to retrieve personal information from Twitter. The Justice Department is aiming to collect private communication between Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Wikileaks volunteers over the leaked cables case. This is interesting because at one point, Dershowitz agreed with Hilary Clinton that Wikileaks was a danger to the U.S. and international diplomacy. [TwitLonger]
Julian Assange Attorneys Argue That Swedish Prime Minister’s Comments Will Lead To Unfair Trial
The lawyers of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are trying to prevent him from getting extradited to Sweden to face rape charges. The lawyers have pointed out that the Swedish prime minister made some remarks that would prevent Assange from having a fair trial there. Assange’s lawyers pointed out that the Swedish prime minister said Assange is an enemy of the people and is public enemy number one. The Swedish prime minister also said that Assange was opposed to women’s rights, which the lawyers said was a lie. [Huffington Post]
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