Merkel, Hollande to discuss European communication network avoiding U.S. - Reuters

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Maybe Americans could ask Merkel and Hollande to come to America and set up a network to protect American citizens from American snooping.

http://news.yahoo.com/merkel-hollande-discuss-possible-european-communication-network-avoids-135711921--sector.html

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she would talk to French President Francois Hollande about building up a European communication network to avoid emails and other data passing through the United States.

Merkel, who visits France on Wednesday, has been pushing for greater data protection in Europe following reports last year about mass surveillance in Germany and elsewhere by the U.S. National Security Agency. Even Merkel's cell phone was reportedly monitored by American spies.

Merkel said in her weekly podcast that she disapproved of companies such as Google and Facebook basing their operations in countries with low levels of data protection while being active in countries such as Germany with high data protection.

Government snooping is a particularly sensitive subject in Germany due to the heavy surveillance of citizens practised in communist East Germany and under Hitler, and there was widespread outrage at the revelations of NSA surveillance by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

[dembotoz]

1. someday maybe soon, the rest of the world is going to discover that their technology has grown to

point where they no longer need the us.

and that will be a very sad day the our country

lets try to delay that day, not push them toward it

[riderinthestorm]

2. I'm not surprised in the least. nt