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Privacy under attack at home and abroad
The revelations about the extent of US government spying on individuals and officials throughout the world keep coming.
The latest embarrassment came Monday in the French newspaper Le Monde, where Glenn Greeenwald revealed massive monitoring of French citizens and government officials.
This prompted a phone call by President Obama to the president of France.
We analyzed it today in:
SPYING SCANDAL: Revelations in France add to US woes
Meanwhile, the European Union is moving aggressively to curtail intrusions into personal privacy.
The New York Times reported this on Tuesday in
Rules Shielding Online Data From N.S.A. and Other Prying Eyes Advance in Europe.
James Kanter wrote:
“A panel of European Union lawmakers on Monday night backed a measure that could require American companies like Google and Yahoo to seek clearance from European officials before complying with United States warrants seeking private data,”
The European Union is way ahead of America in recognizing the right to privacy – and doing something about protecting it.
Concerned Americans should take a cue from our European allies and begin to seriously discuss effective measures to put a cap on how, when and why the government can intercept the communications we hitherto thought were private.