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Indonesia<\/strong>
\nIndonesia recalled<\/a> its ambassador from Australia and announced it would review ongoing cooperation between the two countries—including the position of the Australian ambassador in Jakarta. The move was made in response to documents released<\/a> by Edward Snowden that revealed that Australian intelligence operators had attempted to tap the phones<\/a> of the Indonesian President and his wife.<\/p>\n

Iran<\/strong>
\nIran has blocked Cryptocat<\/a>, \u201ca tool that allows for secure and encrypted chat, and is popular with human rights activists and journalists around the world.\u201d This latest expansion of Iran\u2019s \u201cFilternet\u201d comes despite recent promises<\/a> by President Hassan Rouhani and other high level officials to relax Internet restrictions.<\/p>\n

United States<\/strong>
\nThe US Supreme court declined<\/a> to consider a challenge to the legitimacy of the NSA\u2019s global surveillance operations. The petition<\/a> brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) specifically challenged whether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court exceeded its authority when it ordered Verizon to give all of its telephone metadata to the NSA. The case was the first to reach the Supreme Court since documents released by Edward Snowden earlier this summer shed light on the NSA\u2019s activities. The Court offered no explanation<\/a> for why it declined to hear EPIC\u2019s plea—a request that was unusual for being filed directly<\/a> to the Court without prior lower court action. There are, however, other challenges<\/a> to the surveillance program that are pending in lower courts and may reach the Supreme Court in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n

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