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Reuters: Obama Ordered Curbs on NSA Spying on UN Headquarters

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ericblair10/29/2013 12:07:13 pm PDT

re: #9 Justanotherhuman

“As part of this process, however, the 63-year-old Secretariat has also been equipped with a sophisticated telephone network by Cisco Systems, which apparently has the capacity to collect phone data and track all incoming and outgoing calls made by staffers as well as diplomats, if they access U.N. phones in the delegates’ lounge or elsewhere in the building. (my emphasis)

“If and when the U.N. administration wants to intercept communications, it will now have the capacity to do so in violation of one’s privacy,” a U.N. source familiar with the new network told IPS.”

The “UN source” falls right into the dudebro trap. The UN is the operator of its phone network, and duh, all operators log calls and have the capacity to intercept communications.

So, if some attendee starts sexually harassing another over the phone, the “UN source” wants the UN to be unable to track the call or obtain evidence? On second thought, forget I asked.