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Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by neokya on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:57PM (#10340903)
Point is intelligence based in Europe is still under legal control, NSA is not.

If there is big issue in future, you can summon European intelligence at court.

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Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by bmelton on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:11PM (#10341031)
You're not wrong, but with Five Eyes, the OP's point still stands strong as ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

In practice, there's little advantage to living in Europe, being spied on by the NSA who then sends that data to European intelligence agencies.

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Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by mercurial on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:05AM (#10344272)
Considering that France recently voted a law to make retroactively legal existing practices, I'd say this legal control is most often a farce (and it's not like the new law introduces strong judicial supervision, either).
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Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by the_mitsuhiko on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:12PM (#10341033)
GCHQ's operation legality has been put under question more than once.
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Re:The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward by neokya on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @03:30PM (#10341663)
That hasn't happened in past does not mean it won't happen in future.
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