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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives voted Friday to reauthorize an electronic urveillance program targeting foreigners, a practice officials say is critical to national security but criticized by opponents over concerns for American citizens' privacy. The Republican-controlled House voted to reauthorize a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, widely known as FISA, by a bipartisan vote of 273-147. A part of the program known as Section 702 allows US intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance of foreigners outside the United States. While...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order Wednesday aimed at limiting the flow of sensitive US personal data abroad amid concerns of misuse by countries including China. Biden will direct the Justice Department to issue rules protecting Americans' information such as genetic, biometric and geolocation data from "access and exploitation by countries of concern," said the White House. These countries could include China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. "The sale of Americans' data raises significant privacy, counterintelligence, blackmail risks and other national se...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order Wednesday aimed at limiting the flow of sensitive US personal data abroad -- amid concerns they could be misused by countries including China. Biden will direct the Justice Department to issue rules protecting Americans' sensitive personal information -- such as genomic, biometric and geolocation data -- from "access and exploitation by countries of concern," said a White House fact sheet. These countries could include China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. "The sale of Americans' data raises significan...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US Navy petty officer who pleaded guilty to providing sensitive military information to a Chinese intelligence officer was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Monday, the US Justice Department said. Wenheng Zhao, 26, and another US sailor, Jinchao Wei, were arrested in August on suspicion of spying for China. Zhao pleaded guilty in a federal court in California in October to charges of conspiring with a foreign intelligence officer and accepting a bribe. He was sentenced on Monday to 27 months in prison and a $5,500 fine. According to US officials, Zhao, who was...
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Moscow (AFP) - A Moscow court on Tuesday said it had extended until January the detention of US reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia earlier this year on spying charges. The court said Gershkovich's "period of detention" was extended by two more months until January 30, in what the Wall Street Journal, his employer, called a "brazen and outrageous attack on a free press." The 32-year-old correspondent, the Wall Street Journal and the US government have all rejected the spying allegations. The hearing was held behind closed doors, and no press were allowed inside. The US Em...
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Washington (AFP) - A cyber specialist who briefly worked at the top-secret US National Security Agency (NSA) pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to spy for Russia, the Justice Department said. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, spent less than four weeks working at the NSA, the United States government's huge and powerful signals intelligence agency, before he suddenly quit, citing family problems at the end of June last year. In the few weeks he was at the NSA, he printed out top secret documents, and after leaving he offered them for sale in encrypted online communications to an individual he bel...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US Navy petty officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to providing sensitive military information to a Chinese intelligence officer, the Justice Department said. Wenheng Zhao, 26, and another US sailor, Jinchao Wei, were arrested in August on suspicion of spying for China. Zhao pleaded guilty in a federal court in California to charges of conspiring with a foreign intelligence officer and accepting a bribe, the Justice Department said in a statement. He faces up to five years in prison for conspiracy and a maximum of 15 years for bribery. Sentencing was set for January 8. Accor...
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Washington (AFP) - A former US Army sergeant was arrested on Friday for seeking to provide classified information to China, the Justice Department said. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 29, who served in an army intelligence unit from 2015 until 2020, is charged with retaining national defense information and attempting to deliver it to China. The Justice Department said Schmidt, after leaving the military, offered national defense information to the Chinese consulate in Turkey and the Chinese security services. In March 2020, Schmidt, who had access to secret and top secret information while serving in...
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Washington (AFP) - A US government contractor who worked at the State and Justice departments has been arrested on charges of spying, reportedly for Ethiopia. Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, a US citizen of Ethiopian descent, was arrested August 24 and is charged with providing national defense information to a foreign government, the Justice Department said. The criminal complaint against Lemma, a Silver Spring, Maryland, resident whose LinkedIn profile describes him as an IT systems and data analyst, was unsealed on Friday. In a statement announcing Lemma's arrest, the Justice Department did not na...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The parents of US reporter Evan Gershkovich said Wednesday they want world leaders due to gather at the United Nations next week to join in pressing for his release from prison in Russia. Gershkovich was detained in March during a reporting trip to the Urals and accused of spying -- charges that he, the US government and his employer, the Wall Street Journal, vehemently deny. In August his pre-trial detention was extended by three months. "We just want him home," his father Mikhail Gershkovich told reporters at the UN, which will host its annual General A...
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