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World leaders seek answers on US collection of communication data
Guardian ^

Posted on 06/10/2013 10:03:27 PM PDT by chessplayer

Data protection chiefs and analysts in EU, Pakistan, South Africa and Canada express concerns at revelations in leaks

Leading Europeans, from Angela Merkel down to information chiefs across the continent, are lining up to grill American counterparts on the Prism surveillance programmes, amid mounting fury that the private information of EU nationals will have been caught up in the data dragnet.

Peter Schaar, Germany's federal data protection commissioner, told the Guardian that it was unacceptable for the US authorities to have access to EU citizens' data and that the level of protection was lower than that guaranteed to US citizens.

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1 posted on 06/10/2013 10:03:27 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

What we American citizens are unable to do, perhaps the citizens of other countries who are abused by the Obama administration will be able to do.

Take this criminal enterprise down.


2 posted on 06/10/2013 10:10:09 PM PDT by SusaninOhio
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To: chessplayer

Not defending the regime here, but who the hell are the EU to whine about tyranny? They created the blueprint for modern incremental autocracy!


3 posted on 06/10/2013 10:12:23 PM PDT by Viennacon (Universalist Unitarian Church - It's like the DNC, except with more booing of God)
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To: chessplayer

What’s the bid deal?

You hiding something?


4 posted on 06/10/2013 10:12:27 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: chessplayer

I think it’s laughable for foreign leaders to expect honest answers from our govt.


5 posted on 06/10/2013 10:15:10 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: chessplayer

Pretty soon every country will have its own subnet. I hope the Silicon Valley geeks who supported this get their comeuppance being locked out of the rest of the world.


6 posted on 06/10/2013 10:18:12 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SusaninOhio

There you go!


7 posted on 06/10/2013 10:25:00 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Viennacon

See above!


8 posted on 06/10/2013 10:25:50 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: chessplayer

USA, once stood for freedom, now freedom being squashed.

Brought to you by the Obamas and company who want to destroy this country.

No one in his administration should be anywhere near this kind of power.

Laugh it up. It’s very sad that you guys there promoted him too.


9 posted on 06/10/2013 10:43:27 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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We're watching a Scandalanche happen in real time. This is history in the making.
10 posted on 06/10/2013 11:13:19 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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“Data protection chiefs and analysts in . . . Canada express concerns . . .”

“What’s this NS, eh?”

...

“Leading Europeans, from Angela Merkel down . . .”

“Ve vere eighty years ahead of you.”


11 posted on 06/11/2013 4:14:56 AM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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