Privacy Ombudsman Could Handle EU Complaints About US Surveillance (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes with this story from Beta News: One of the greatest problems facing anyone trying to tackle the problem of privacy on the web is dealing with the ideologies of different countries, and how this affects data sharing. A level of surveillance that is deemed acceptable in the US, for instance, may be considered completely objectionable in another. The latest suggestion to help overcome this seemingly insurmountable problem is to set up a privacy ombudsman that would be able to handle European complaints and queries about US surveillance.

Comments

"level of surveillance that is deemed acceptable"

[Anonymous Coward]

That would be zero without a warrant issued by a public judicial system with oversight and accountability.

Re:It is a culture difference..

[currently_awake]

I think the large "American" multi-national corporations should be considered "Foreign Corporations", as they clearly don't care about the USA.

Re:Bullshit ...

[gstoddart]

Then read the damned article:

the latest proposal to be floated by the US is the creation of a privacy ombudsman. The independent overseeing body would be charged with not only checking that data transfers between countries were carried out correctly, but also will be handing complaints from Europe.

No, sorry, this is Americans suggesting they put up their own privacy ombudsman to oversee how America does at violating EU privacy laws.

So, I'll tell you what, let the Americans make a request to EU agencies who are already under this jurisdiction, instead of creating some bullshit fantasy where an American agency is trusted to do it.

What, you think Americans would accept a fucking Chinese ombudsman overseeing snooping into American citizens?

America does not have the credibility for this. This is the fucking fox guarding the hen house. Because if it is in any way under the sway of the US government, they'll just invoke secret security laws and make them lie about it.

Bullshit, this is just a dodge to get around oversight and following the laws. Handling complaints from Europe when the ruling will be that you've complied with the law even if it's a lie?

Yeah, right, tell me another one Pinocchio.

Wah wah wah .... stop pretending like the rest of the world needs to be acceding to US snooping like it's your right. Nobody else believes that shit but you.