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Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician and whistleblower who revealed details of the company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network hardware at a site known as Room 641A to monitor, capture and process American telecommunications. The subsequent media coverage became a major story in May 2006. He wrote a book about the NSA and AT&T's cooperation in surveiling everyone on the internet and his experience in discovering it and trying to tell the public called Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It.

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  • مارك كلاين (بالإنجليزية: Mark Klein)‏ هو مهندس أمريكي، ولد في القرن العشرين. (ar)
  • Mark Klein (nascut l'any 1945) és un tècnic estatunidenc d'AT&T que va denunciat la cooperació de la seva ex-empresa amb la National Security Agency (NSA) en el marc del programa de vigilància electrònica de la NSA, probablement il·legal, als ciutadans americans. Als Estats Units, la seva denúncia va aparèixer en diversos importants mitjans de comunicació estatunidencs el maig de 2006. (ca)
  • Mark Klein ist ein US-amerikanischer Whistleblower und ehemaliger AT&T-Nachrichtentechniker, der im Jahr 2006 Informationen über die Kooperation seines vormaligen Arbeitgebers mit der National Security Agency (NSA) preisgab. Die Enthüllungen Kleins stießen die von der EFF geführten Sammelklage an, die allerdings 2009 abgewiesen wurde mit Berufung auf die vom FISA Amendments Act of 2008 gewährte rückwirkende Immunität für Telekommunikationsunternehmen, die mit dem Staat kooperieren. (de)
  • Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician and whistleblower who revealed details of the company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network hardware at a site known as Room 641A to monitor, capture and process American telecommunications. The subsequent media coverage became a major story in May 2006. He wrote a book about the NSA and AT&T's cooperation in surveiling everyone on the internet and his experience in discovering it and trying to tell the public called Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It. In recognition of his actions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation picked Klein as one of the winners of its 2008 Pioneer Awards. For over 22 years Mark Klein worked for AT&T. Starting with the company as a Communications Technician in New York, where he remained from November 1981 until March 1991, he later continued in that capacity in California until 1998. From January 1998 to October 2003, Klein worked as a Computer Network Associate in San Francisco. Starting in October 2003, he returned to the role of Communications Technician, after which he retired in May 2004. (en)
  • Mark Klein (né en 1945) est un technicien américain d'AT&T qui a dénoncé la coopération de son ex-employeur avec la National Security Agency (NSA) dans le cadre du programme de surveillance électronique de la NSA, probablement illégal, des citoyens américains. Aux États-Unis, sa dénonciation a fait la manchette de plusieurs importants médias américains en mai 2006. (fr)
  • Mark Klein é um ex-técnico da AT&T que trabalhou na companhia durante vinte e dois anos. Em 2006, ele vazou documentos internos da AT&T, que revelaram que a empresa havia criado uma sala secreta no escritório de São Francisco para dar à Agência de Segurança Nacional (NSA) acesso aos seus cabos de fibra óptica de Internet. Ele testemunhou perante o Congresso americano em novembro de 2007 exortando os legisladores não dessem AT&T e às outras empresas de telecomunicações, entre elas a Verizon, envolvidas na vigilância em massa dentro dos Estados Unidos, imunidade. Mark Klein também é uma testemunha em uma ação movida pela Electronic Frontier Foundation, que alega a AT&T deu ilegalmente o acesso às suas redes à NSA. (pt)
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  • مارك كلاين (بالإنجليزية: Mark Klein)‏ هو مهندس أمريكي، ولد في القرن العشرين. (ar)
  • Mark Klein (nascut l'any 1945) és un tècnic estatunidenc d'AT&T que va denunciat la cooperació de la seva ex-empresa amb la National Security Agency (NSA) en el marc del programa de vigilància electrònica de la NSA, probablement il·legal, als ciutadans americans. Als Estats Units, la seva denúncia va aparèixer en diversos importants mitjans de comunicació estatunidencs el maig de 2006. (ca)
  • Mark Klein ist ein US-amerikanischer Whistleblower und ehemaliger AT&T-Nachrichtentechniker, der im Jahr 2006 Informationen über die Kooperation seines vormaligen Arbeitgebers mit der National Security Agency (NSA) preisgab. Die Enthüllungen Kleins stießen die von der EFF geführten Sammelklage an, die allerdings 2009 abgewiesen wurde mit Berufung auf die vom FISA Amendments Act of 2008 gewährte rückwirkende Immunität für Telekommunikationsunternehmen, die mit dem Staat kooperieren. (de)
  • Mark Klein (né en 1945) est un technicien américain d'AT&T qui a dénoncé la coopération de son ex-employeur avec la National Security Agency (NSA) dans le cadre du programme de surveillance électronique de la NSA, probablement illégal, des citoyens américains. Aux États-Unis, sa dénonciation a fait la manchette de plusieurs importants médias américains en mai 2006. (fr)
  • Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician and whistleblower who revealed details of the company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network hardware at a site known as Room 641A to monitor, capture and process American telecommunications. The subsequent media coverage became a major story in May 2006. He wrote a book about the NSA and AT&T's cooperation in surveiling everyone on the internet and his experience in discovering it and trying to tell the public called Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It. (en)
  • Mark Klein é um ex-técnico da AT&T que trabalhou na companhia durante vinte e dois anos. Em 2006, ele vazou documentos internos da AT&T, que revelaram que a empresa havia criado uma sala secreta no escritório de São Francisco para dar à Agência de Segurança Nacional (NSA) acesso aos seus cabos de fibra óptica de Internet. Ele testemunhou perante o Congresso americano em novembro de 2007 exortando os legisladores não dessem AT&T e às outras empresas de telecomunicações, entre elas a Verizon, envolvidas na vigilância em massa dentro dos Estados Unidos, imunidade. (pt)
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