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marmar

(77,084 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 10:45 PM Dec 2012

Patriot Act allows US to spy worldwide, Europeans outraged





Russia Today
Published on Dec 6, 2012

Information that Europeans keep stored online could be accessed by US law enforcement agencies. That's according to a report issued by one university in Amsterdam, which revealed the anti-terrorism Patriot Act gives Washington legal grounds to bypass Europe's privacy laws.
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Patriot Act allows US to spy worldwide, Europeans outraged (Original Post) marmar Dec 2012 OP
The NSA has always been able to spy globally under US law. The USA Patriot Act changed that to leveymg Dec 2012 #1
Americans should be outraged at the Patriot Act... lib2DaBone Dec 2012 #2
They -- including the EU -- spy on ALL of us melody Dec 2012 #3
Stand Up and Fight Back Already! triplepoint Dec 2012 #4
Great idea, I was wondering when this would happen........ kooljerk666 Dec 2012 #6
K&R DeSwiss Dec 2012 #5

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
1. The NSA has always been able to spy globally under US law. The USA Patriot Act changed that to
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 11:03 PM
Dec 2012

allow mass "drift net' interception of communications internally within America between US persons without a warrant.

European law does not, and never has, prevent U.S. eavesdropping of electronic communications collections conducted by technical means across Europe or anywhere else.

 

lib2DaBone

(8,124 posts)
2. Americans should be outraged at the Patriot Act...
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 01:51 AM
Dec 2012

..as well as NDAA.

But we say nothing.. and smile.. as the TSA crams their hand down our pants.

 

triplepoint

(431 posts)
4. Stand Up and Fight Back Already!
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 04:27 AM
Dec 2012

Last edited Fri Dec 7, 2012, 04:59 PM - Edit history (2)

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kooljerk666

(776 posts)
6. Great idea, I was wondering when this would happen........
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 11:36 AM
Dec 2012

I am gonna have to send that to & from all accounts with password encryped rar/zip files with passwords paragraphs long........

all with nothing but "have a nice day" messages hidden under 3 layers of encryption.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
5. K&R
Fri Dec 7, 2012, 05:20 AM
Dec 2012
''It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'

Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!''
~Howard Beale
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