"The privacy of communications in Europe has never been more vulnerable, and
we all need to reassess how to
protect communications privacy in the modern age, particularly in light of
domestic, foreign, and international developments", writes the American
Civil Liberty Union to the Art.29 Working Party of European Data Protection
Commissioners as many streams of the global data flows pass US servers,
where the NSA is fishing.
More about an interesting emerging international coalition at:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/apr/aclu-eu-dp-letter.pdf
Also of interest might be a recent ACLU report about so-called fusion
centers in the US where a hybrid bunch of "security" agencies share their
intelligence beyond public scrutiny:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/apr/us-aclu-fusion-center.pdf
Best wishes,
Eric
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