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Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by jacquesm on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:05AM (#11992745)
How would America respond if it found out that say the UK is tracking cellphones worldwide, except for British subjects of course, but including all Americans on American soil?
Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by themartorana on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:35AM (#11992855)
They probably are, so the NSA can request such data from them if they need it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gch...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secre...

And so on.

Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by threatofrain on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:36AM (#11992856)
I feel that it's reasonable to expect that Russian, Chinese, and EU members are tracking American activities worldwide. It would be a failure of their various institutions to not track and influence nations and institutions with world-relevant power or influence. This includes both monitoring and more aggressive attacks.

I also feel that as an individual person, I have no defense against this, partly because it's generally easier to attack a system than to defend it, partly because of the asymmetry of costs in defense vs attack leading to the lack of business or personal justification for effective defense spending, and partly because electronic monitoring and attacks are difficult to investigate by their international nature.

So if American institutions discovered some attack, they would release the information with proper political timing to influence national narrative, thereby inflating their agency importance, or it may further some group goals, the news media may proliferate and bark about it, and no national administration, including the American one, would be surprised at all. It would not update anyone's view of the world in any way.

Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by pil4rin on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @08:53AM (#11993346)
We'd dump your tea out in the harbor again.
Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @09:56AM (#11993797)
Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by athenot on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:12AM (#11992766)
That would be called a cyber attack, and the group responsible would be portrayed as an "evil" group.

2 weights, 2 measures...

Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @08:55AM (#11993354)
our NSA would negotiate to exchange datasets with you.
Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by throwanem on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:31AM (#11994060)
Why would America assume anything else?
Re:NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden docum... by appleflaxen on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:54AM (#11992948)
The USG would call it terrorism.