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Global spy system ECHELON confirmed at last – by leaked Snowden files

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Re: Meh.

Look, I hate to break it to you but in most of the western World there are actually rules (e.g. US constitution) against that sort of thing. If you want to open letters or bug phone lines, you need a warrant.

I am in principle ok with that; with a general data slurp, not so much.

One problem is that even if (a big if) the current slurpers are ok, who says the next ones are? To give you an example:

In the 30es, the Danish secret police had kept registers over members of the (legal) communist party. By then perhaps not unreasonable, as the declared aims of the communists were not much aligned with the Danish constitution.

As you may know, in 1940 the political situation changed and the secret police brought the register as a welcome present to Gestapo, who found it very useful. 22 died in a concentration camp.

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