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Sure, I agree that governments spying on other governments is something that is a necessary evil up to a certain point. In my opinion this is vastly different
by mfwoods 13y ago
Sure, I agree that governments spying on other governments is something that is a necessary evil up to a certain point.
In my opinion this is vastly different from a government reading and storing pretty much all foreign communication they can get their hands on from an allied state citizens though, something I understand the USA/NSA seems to be doing.
- _djo_ 13y agoThing is though, that doesn't matter. No country places any restrictions on whether the foreigners its spy services monitor are part of a foreign government or not because it wouldn't make any sense. To use a pertinent example, none of the dozens of countries trying to intercept al-Qaeda communications cares which country they're in as long (in most cases) as they're not domestic. So what the NSA is doing to foreign citizens is no different to what every other country with the means does. My country will happily (and legally) spy on American citizens indiscriminately if it feels the need to, as will all of Europe.