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NSA Orders Employees to Spy on the World “With Dignity and Respect” (theintercept.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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"The [U.S.] government is putting up Potemkin villages to try and trick Europe — and the American people — into thinking the U.S. government’s out-of-control spying is somehow fixed, despite the fact that Congress hasn’t even had the chance to consider any serious reforms — which, it must be noted, the government is ferociously lobbying against right now, and has been all year," says Sean Vitka, senior policy counsel for Demand Progress, a civil liberties advocacy organization.

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[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

The only thing that would ever help is encryption without NSA interference

[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Everyone is spying on everyone, there's no moral high ground.

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

So no hacking of my porn server!