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Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo... by arrrg on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:18PM (#5963743)
There is a right to privacy (in case of the German constitution literally, by the way). And I take issue with anyone saying that violating the privacy of non-citizens is totally ok.

I do not want to claim any kind of superiority – that is very clearly not the case. The German government consists of many, many people who do not respect privacy at all and are disgusting scumbags. No question about that.

I just want to say that from a moral point of view the statement that it’s ok that non-citizens have no right to privacy is totally bankrupt and idiotic.

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Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo... by philwelch on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:50AM (#5968927)
If you interpret the right to privacy to entail never having foreign intelligence agencies, you take a position that almost no government in the world actually follows, because almost every national government has foreign intelligence agencies. Holding up Germany as a counterexample on this issue is, in your words, factually wrong.
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