"“Data protection is a basic right in Germany, unlike in the USA,” Peter Schaar, the German government’s data protection commissioner, told Yahoo News. “It’s not really surprising what the NSA was doing—but the scope is astonishing.” Keenly aware of how sensitive Germans are about their privacy, Merkel has made clear she would ask Obama directly about the NSA’s snooping during his trip to Berlin this week. One of Merkel’s fellow conservative politicians, Markus Ferber, even accused the U.S. intelligence agency of behaving like East Germany’s infamous secret police, the Stasi, which had an unquenchable thirst for surveillance of its own oppressed citizens." news.yahoo/blogs/ticket/edward-snowden-hiding-wrong-country-120521507.html
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:32:54 +0000
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