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In reply to the discussion: ‘Unacceptable and shocking’: France demands explanation for NSA spying [View all]BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)I assure you my outrage at these practices is not phony, and neither is it limited to the US doing this. Neither do I think the outrage from Brazil was fake.
Fact remains that all of us foreigners in the 'third echelon' now know the US thinks dragnet surveillance of us is OK. Very well possible that our own govts are doing that as well, and that they are cooperating / participating to some degree, but I've nowhere read about giant data centers being built, so I strongly doubt the scale is the same as in 'the five eyes'.
It's actually rather telling how we've seen stern worded letters and similar wrist-slapping from the EU, but nothing else. The part of the population that thinks privacy matters isn't fake, and for example in Germany there really is a public debate now, it was even a factor in the elections.