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Especially as a foreigner, it's pretty clear that there's no end to any of this. Even if it is claimed that spying has stopped, there's almost no chance that an
by nwh 13y ago
Especially as a foreigner, it's pretty clear that there's no end to any of this. Even if it is claimed that spying has stopped, there's almost no chance that anything will actually change. You're talking about an organisation that has it's own interpretation of the rules, has nobody to pull them up on what they do wrong, and for all intents is invisible to the public. If a public court "shuts them down", it's just a facade to keep the media at bay.
If their president is lying to them on simple facts that get refuted by a whistle browser at the next available moment, there's no telling what else goes on behind closed and private doors.
- northwest 13y agoAlso, rest assured that the US government will continue to put enough pressure on foreign/European governments to continue mass surveillance on their behalf. If there is no fundamental structural change in the US, the Western World will remain a surveillance society and the current degree of democracy will be so much weakened that the term "democracy" will need to be "redefined".