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> Third, the legal safeguards that restrict surveillance against U.S. persons > without a warrant do not apply to foreign persons overseas. This is not > un
by alecco 13y ago
> Third, the legal safeguards that restrict surveillance against U.S. persons
> without a warrant do not apply to foreign persons overseas. This is not
> unique to America; few, if any, spy agencies around the world constrain their
> activities beyond their own borders. And the whole point of intelligence is to
> obtain information that is not publicly available. But America’s capabilities
> are unique. And the power of new technologies means that there are fewer and
> fewer technical constraints on what we can do. That places a special
> obligation on us to ask tough questions about what we should do.
Thanks. We, foreign consumers of american services and products, will sure remember this one.
- glasz 13y agoyou and i, maybe others too. but not the general sheep.
- tomelders 13y agoApparently all men are not created equal, many are created foreign. Europe unite.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago> Europe unite. "old Europe die hard" http://i.imgur.com/srtDWIX.jpg http://i.imgur.com/srtDWIX.jpg Seen nearly 10 years ago in Cologne, sadly I don't know the name of the artist (it was in a museum, he filled huge walls with such drawings). I know HN frowns on images, but I don't have the eloquence to express what this picture is saying anyway, so I'd rather post that instead of nothing. At least it's not a meme - not yet, anyway. Here's hoping :P
- PavlovsCat 13y ago> I don't know the name of the artist Managed to find it out, it's Dan Perjovschi ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Perjovschi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Perjovschi )
- mpyne 13y agoby that same logic American companies should not purchase SAP or Siemens kit then either, no? Allow me to cite that most pro-Snowden of papers, The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/german-intelligency-service-nsa-internet-laws http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/german-...