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US To Get EU Private Citizen Data

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the no-one-is-safe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a case of 'all your data are belong to us,' the US government is close to coming to an agreement with the EU that allows it to get private citizen data on EU citizens to 'look for suspicious activity.' So, now we know what step three is: set up a security agency in the US to resell otherwise unavailable data."

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  1. Re:EU requests private US citizen data by rronda · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't understand what is the big deal. This is the usual business with all travelers except europeans. Somehow, this only levels the field with respect to everybody else in the world. That doesn't make it good, but it makes it a bit more fair, if you will.

  2. Re:EU requests private US citizen data by Toll_Free · · Score: 0, Troll

    It makes us all feel warm and fuzzy at night, knowing that the good old USSA have got the world police looking after us.

    Yeah, and the world was a much more place of freedom prior to 1990, right?

    I mean, let's be honest with each other. Eastern Europe, Asia, Western Europe, Africa, would ALL be better off had the USSA (as you so lovingly put it) had left all your affairs alone 1900 to 1970, right?

    Not trying to troll or be an asshole, but you'd probably be speaking German had it not been for the world police assholes, the USSA. It's not like Europe has ever been able to take care of itself in a post modern world conflict.

    --Toll_Free