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Love how they use sentences like "Germans are particularly sensitive to electronic surveillance" and "(their) hard line on data transfers has drawn the ire of"
by akie 11y ago
Love how they use sentences like "Germans are particularly sensitive to electronic surveillance" and "(their) hard line on data transfers has drawn the ire of" to make it sound as if the Germans are the unreasonable ones here.
- merb 11y agome, too. I think that we (Germany) are as bad as others (U.S.), however we do so, as we are angels, but we definitely aren't. I also think that the german government is way more corrupt and broke some surveillance rules as well as the us did
- junto 11y agoThere is also a perceived threat of a threat as well though. This is how I imagine the conversation: NSA: We need your data feeds in order to protect you using our super-duper 'big data' intel tools. Install these black boxes and we'll tell you when you are under imminent threat. BND: Um, not sure about this. Not sure it might be illegal? NSA: You wouldn't want a terrorist attack like the one in Madrid, or London on German soil would you? BND: Sigh, give us the black boxes then. NSA: Oh oops slight porky... they are already installed. We just needed your permission.
- dalke 11y agoYou imagine NSA would use British slang? ;) (I had to look up what 'porky' meant in this context. Apparently 'very big lie', and perhaps rhyming slang for porky pie => lie.)
- calpaterson 11y agoOne of the problems of being British (a crime I suspect the GP of) is you don't always know what is British slang
- Vivtek 11y agoYeah, that supposed NSA guy is even inexplicably using single quotes.
- dean 11y agoYes, and it's also interesting that the "ire" they've drawn is from the Director General of Digital Europe, a business association made up of dozens of large companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. Might be a conflict of interest there (understatement).