European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM

Re:European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM by Mordor on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:34PM (#5862898)

Ultimately the only language the US government understands is the massive fines and restrictions about to be levied against its corporations. Should Apple be operating in Europe for example? Would it be possible to levy a fine for each iPhone sold? Perhaps the tax authorities could take a different view on their profits...

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Re:European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM by ig1 on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @01:12PM (#5863193)

In theory if someone knew they were subject to data being collected about them they could bring a law-suit against the companies involved for breaching data protection and privacy legislation.

The immunity that companies get from co-operating with the US government only covers them in the US, not in other countries.

But in practice the only time people know this information is being collected on them is when a company (i.e Twitter) refuses to comply with such an order.

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Re:European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM by lignuist on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @01:38PM (#5863378)

If not providing the right browsers with a OS is a reason to enforce huge fines, then large scale espionage is a reason for much higher fines. Probably enough to fix the Euro crisis...

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Re:European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM by nullc on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @02:47PM (#5863887)

Perhaps not a good mix with all those offshore-for-tax-reasons assets!

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