German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NSA spying

Re:German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NS... by robin_reala on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:40AM (#5985263)

That might be the focus of the scandal in the US, but it certainly isn’t in the EU.

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Re:German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NS... by sneak on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:54AM (#5985368)

Yeah. If Google/AWS/AWS-hosted companies/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook know what's good for them, they'll quickly do literally everything they can to force the US government to stop this foolish bullshit. They have far more non-US-citizen customers than they do US-citizen customers.

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Re:German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NS... by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @12:42PM (#5985731)

> That might be the focus of the scandal in the US, but it certainly isn’t in the EU.

Its the focus of the leak which is at the heart of the scandal (and the leaker is not someone for whom the NSA spying on purely foreign traffic would be remotely problematic or noteworthy.)

But it would be a mistake to content the focus of the leak with the overall scope and focus of the NSA's intelligence gathering efforts.

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