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Q: "Does Russia intercept, store or analyze in any way the communications of millions of individuals?” A: Putin denied Russian mass surveillance, saying “Thank
by gesman 13y ago
Q: "Does Russia intercept, store or analyze in any way the communications of millions of individuals?”
A:
Putin denied Russian mass surveillance, saying “Thank God, our special services are strictly controlled by the state and society, and their activity is regulated by law.”
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"Putin denied..."?
He didn't deny anything.
He avoided answering the question by making generic statement about special services being controlled.
- leaveyou 13y agoI don't know where you get your info but in the translation of show I saw he said: 1)the interception is clearly regulated by russian law 2)of course they intercept communications 3)they don't do mass interception and not at the US scale and he "hopes" they will not do it in the future either 4)they don't do it like in US mostly because they don't have the technical and financial resources
- brown9-2 13y agoHere is a fuller quote, from http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/20/snowden-s-camp-staged-putin-q-a-was-a-screw-up.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/20/snowden-s-c... Putin’s answer was predictable. “Of course, we know that criminals and terrorists use technology for their criminal acts and of course the special services have to use technical means to respond to their crimes,” he said. “But we don’t have a mass-scale, uncontrollable efforts like that…Our special services…are strictly controlled by the society and the law, and are regulated by the law.”