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Re:Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Governm... by izacus on Friday May 16, 2014 @12:39PM (#7756360)
Because there's a significant difference in influence I can assert to MY governmnet and a FOREIGN (which includes US) government.

Consider just a lot of US surveillance laws: we non-US citizens might as well be animals for the rights we have. Significantly different than what our own local/EU privacy laws award us.

Also it is significantly easier to take legal action againsy my own government agencies than US ones.

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Re:Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Governm... by happyscrappy on Friday May 16, 2014 @01:30PM (#7756660)
Except people in CN, NZ and AU pretend they are not part of the 5 eyes and don't appeal their own govs, just complain about US. Brilliant.
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Re:Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Governm... by nisse72 on Friday May 16, 2014 @03:37PM (#7757491)
Not sure about the others, but the Kiwis certainly have been appealing the government to stop spying, and questioning New Zealand's role in 5 eyes:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

CN? When did China join 5 eyes?

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Re:Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Governm... by happyscrappy on Friday May 16, 2014 @03:53PM (#7757566)
Oops. CA not CN, CA is the postcode for California and the TLD for Canada. Good to see some pressure applied to the NZ gov but I think Dotcom muddles things.
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