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The only thing I can’t believe you can be such a complete moron as to think espionage on this scale will not hurt your economy. The law is the law and the EU complaints are in the public domain. Go look it up.

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They obviously are otherwise Snowden wouldn’t have known about it. Oh… I see what you mean.

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From/to non-American citizens, that’s OK

Nope… not if you want to provide non-us citizens/organisations with data services it isn’t. I’m going to have some fun the next time a Microsoft salesperson phones me to try and persuade us to use Azure.
Billing issues will be the least of the problems.

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Do or don’t, you were the ones caught so we are the ones pissed off about it.
When you catch us doing the same to you… then you can be angry.

I repeat…

Under EU law, non eu-citizens, even when outside the eu have a right to privacy and can sue in EU courts if the privacy of data about them held within the EU is breached. Clear?

Such laws are obviously essential to allow e.g internationally hosted cloud computing or mail sevices and without them such services are effectively dead (the latest revelations frankly blows the ‘safe harbour’ workaround out of the water). The EU have been complaining about the lack of reciprocity on this point for years

It now appear that as far as non-residents data is concerned the US is lawless anarchy whose border our data cannot be allowed to cross.

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That’s ridiculous – You are just speculating that they are. For all you know no one (at least none of your so called allies) are monitoring any of your communications. If we were I would expect the U.S. government to complain or take action (e.g. China) and good luck to them with that. So far I haven’t heard any complaints about the EU hacking U.S. data.

Actually, under our laws visitors have exactly the same legal rights as a citizen/resident (the right to a trial, the right to a lawyer, the right not to self incriminate and yes… the right to privacy). That also applies to non-EU citizens data hosted in the EU. You just don’t have the right to stay/work without a valid visa/permit. That’s actually the way things normally work between developed nations which aren’t at war with each other.

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Angry? I’m f***ing furious. Some things are worth getting angry about.

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I don’t live in the U.S. though and I have no plans to visit. Is it ok if my government reads all your private email and listens to all your phone calls?

If a non-U.S. citizen is suspected of a crime can they be detained or tortured indefinitely without trial… oops… don’t answer that.

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Incredible! Casper Bowden on FISA and PRISM at the IET in London.

Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XRFxevw1Y
Part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjMIJ0PCayU
Part 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWg9_p2cJvI
Part 4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB71OGIcggQ

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So as long as you protect US citizens rights it’s ok to spy on every other last person on the planet, including the entire population of your, apparently in name only, ‘allies’?

F*** you! You deserve to be hacked by China, Syria, Iran, Anonymous or whoever else feels like it today.

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