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Re: [privacy] US vs EU
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:30:35 -0400
Brian, This is just one story. There are privacy breaches and privacy supporters in the UK, just like there are here. This story is from the register, which is a UK based paper. They are going to take the position that their country is better than ours. It is important to note where a story is coming from and see the bias in the articles. After establishing where the bias is (and therefore what you cannot trust) you can now read the article for the bits of information that are of import or useful/interesting. Namely, in this article, the US vs UK "who can snoop on who" battles which I thought was interesting. -JP<dont believe everything you read> On 8/28/06, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
On 8/28/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:06:47 CDT, Brian Loe said:European "privacy guardians"?! Its amazing, three months of these stories, arrests centering around intelligence finds and still not a single mention of European intelligence groups...like they're all just sitting around with their thumbs up their arses or something. What gives? Surely someone has to eventually ask what Miwhatever is doing, right?Perhaps MI[1..6] are content with being quiet and actually *doing* stuff, while the US TLAs feel the need to *be seen as* doing stuff....That's an interesting take. It seems to me that the US agencies would very much like to stay quiet - but they keep getting outed on the front pages of our newspapers. That has nothing, however, to do with the question I posed. My question refers to why there are no questions in the European press, or here in the US for that matter, discussing what M* is doing - even though they're certainly doing something and are quite likely to be doing the SAME things as the FBI/CIA/NSA guys are. Instead the story posted reads like Europe is full of privacy advocates (who apparently don't mind being on camera every waking second of the day) and NO intelligence groups!
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- [privacy] US vs EU Dude VanWinkle (Aug 26)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Brian Loe (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Brian Loe (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Dude VanWinkle (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Brian Loe (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Dude VanWinkle (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Drsolly (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU David Harley (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Brian Loe (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Dude VanWinkle (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Brian Loe (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Dude VanWinkle (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU David Harley (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 28)
- Re: [privacy] US vs EU Brian Loe (Aug 28)