EU Committee Issues Report On NSA Surveillance; Snowden To Testify

Posted by Unknown on Thursday January 9, 2014 @05:03AM from the everybody's-doing-it dept.

Qedward writes with word that the EU Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee published the draft of their report on the impact of dragnet surveillance by the NSA on EU citizens (PDF). Quoting CIO: "... Members of the European Parliament say that it is 'very doubtful that data collection of such magnitude is only guided by the fight against terrorism,' and that there may be other motives such as political and economic espionage. The document urges EU countries to take legal action against the breach of their sovereignty perpetrated through such mass surveillance programs." The same committee voted today to allow Edward Snowden to testify before them in a special hearing.

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EU to grow balls, News at 11 by zlives · 2014-01-09 05:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

nope false alert, not gonna happen.
so says by pablo_max · 2014-01-09 05:46 · Score: 5, Insightful

So says the man from America. The country who's population literally could not care less that their own government is spying on them as well AND systematically removing their rights and dismantling their constitution.
But you go on and talk about how stupid and cowardly we in the EU are. After all, we can see how strong your back bone is. After all, it is not we who have the backbones to bomb brown people "into freedom".