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Watch Citizenfour, the documentary about Edward Snowden. As it is, the NSA is not permitted to spy on domestic data. How do they get around that? The data of U
by coupdejarnac 11y ago
Watch Citizenfour, the documentary about Edward Snowden.
As it is, the NSA is not permitted to spy on domestic data. How do they get around that? The data of US citizens is moved to a data warehouse abroad. Oh, it is not in the USA anymore, now it's fair game! It's a huge loophole.
There has been talk of foreign governments colluding with the US government to get around domestic spying laws going many years back. I'm pretty sure I heard about it when the tech community was abuzz with Echelon and Carnivore. The Echelon furor was back around 2000.
- chinathrow 11y agoDid you read what I wrote? Getting around of not being able to spay on your own soil buy letting some other nation state collect all the thingsTM does not make it legal. Because that other nation state would break the law too. My example was for Germany as this is the focus of this thread.
- user 11y ago> Getting around of not being able to spay on your own soil buy letting some other nation state collect all the things does not make it legal Not preventing someone from spying on your citizens, possibly encouraging them, and not prosecuting that entity once the matters become known, - looks certainly illegal to me.
- chinathrow 11y agoFully agree - and that is 100% what is happening in those countries where illegal spying by foreign nation states occured.
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