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Posted: 24 Jul 2015 05:13 PM PDT
 Security cameras are seen on a corner across the street from France’s Interior Ministry in Paris January 18, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE – Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS) – RTR3CR2D“The bill grants overly broad powers for very intrusive surveillance on the basis of vast and badly defined objectives,” the report published on Friday said, as cited by the Guardian. The committee (UNCHR) called on France to “guarantee that any interference in private life must conform to principles of legality, proportionality and necessity”. The bill was passed by the French parliament in May and late on Thursday was approved by the Constitutional Council – the highest authority on constitutional matters. “From now on, France has a security framework against terrorism that respects liberties. It’s decisive progress,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls wrote in his Twitter. Numerous human right organization voiced strong criticism of the new law. “The surveillance measures authorized by this law are wildly out of proportion”, Gauri van Gulik, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia, said on Friday. “Large swathes of France’s population could soon find themselves under surveillance on obscure grounds and without prior judicial approval”, he added. The controversial law gives intelligence services the power to tap the mobile phones and e-mails of anyone linked to a “terrorist” inquiry without the permission of a court. It also obliges internet providers and mobile companies to provide spy agencies with information upon request. Intelligence services can also place cameras and other recording devices in private homes and can monitor every action of computer users. The passage of the law occurred following a series of terrorist attacks committed this year, such as the Charlie Hebdo massacre and a deadly attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris in January. Source The post UN criticizes ‘excessive’ French spy law as it goes into effect appeared first on USAHM Conspiracy News.       |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2015 05:04 PM PDT
 China is assembling what has been hailed as the world’s largest radio telescope, state media reported. The 500-meter tool will boast a dish the size of 30 football pitches, overtaking Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, “only” 305 meters in diameter. With a perimeter of about 1.6km, it will take up to 40 minutes to walk around the single-aperture spherical telescope, which is called “FAST”. It will be constructed deep in the mountains of the southwestern Guizhou Province, built on a naturally formed bowl-shaped valley, Xinhua reports. “There are three hills about 500 meters away from one another, creating a valley that is perfect to support the telescope,” Sun Caihong, chief engineer of FAST’s construction, told the news agency. The construction of the highly sensitive telescope began in March 2011 and is due to be completed next year. On Thursday, technicians already began attaching 4,450 triangular-shaped panels to the telescope’s reflector. To overlook the whole reflector, visitors will reportedly have to climb up to the top of one of the hills. An observation platform is currently said to be under construction. The chief scientist of the FAST project, a Chinese astronomer Nan Rendong, explained that the bigger the dish is, the more powerful the telescope. The so-called Karst topography in the surrounding landscape is ideal for draining rainwater underground and protecting the reflector, according to Chinese scientists, adding that the surrounding area is characterized by a certain “radio silence.” The dish will shift to receive radio signals from different angles. “Panels can change their positions through connected wires and parallel robots. We can control their position with an accuracy of 1 mm,” Zheng Yuanpeng, chief engineer of the telescope’s panel project, told Xinhua. It’s hoped that the new telescope will boost Chinese scientists’ capacity to observe outer space. Read More Here The post China building world’s largest 500-meter radio telescope appeared first on USAHM Conspiracy News.   |
