A New Era of Mass Surveillance is Emerging Across Europe

January 22nd, 2017

Via: Just Security:

In recent months, and in the wake of a series of terrorist attacks across Europe, Germany, France and the United Kingdom — Europe’s biggest superpowers — have passed laws granting their surveillance agencies virtually unfettered power to conduct bulk interception of communications across Europe and beyond, with limited to no effective oversight or procedural safeguards from abuse.

The same political leaders and legislators that once rebuked the NSA on the ethics of its mass surveillance practices, seem to now be taking a page out of the NSA’s playbook.

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2 Responses to “A New Era of Mass Surveillance is Emerging Across Europe”

  1. Duros says:
    January 22, 2017 at 6:39 pm

    Gosh, I wonder why? /s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulHPD_4nmWE

    (Warning: Subtitles NSFW)

  2. Kevin says:
    January 22, 2017 at 6:54 pm

    Ask François Hollande. This shit didn’t just happen by chance.

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