The Netherlands Is Too Small To Fight the NSA

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http://watchingamerica.com/News/228352/the-netherlands-is-too-small-to-fight-the-nsa/

The Netherlands Is Too Small To Fight the NSA
By Anouk van Kampen
Translated By Daniel Baker
15 December 2013
Edited by Gillian Palmer

“The Netherlands is too small to fight the NSA.” These were the words of Jacob Kohnstamm, chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, during an interview with the Dutch news website nu.nl.

To deal effectively with American spying, cooperation is needed at a European level; the Netherlands cannot do it on its own. "The dominance of corporate America is such that Europe-wide privacy laws are needed in order to reduce the threat as much as possible."

Kohnstamm believes that the EU needs to issue threats; it could, for example threaten to cancel agreements with the U.S.

Europe might also work on its own stimulus package and look to develop its own cloud computing capacity, in order to reduce the dominance of Silicon Valley and of American companies. “Then America would be forced to listen to Europe's economic and financial voice,” argues Kohnstamm.

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1. Our government is fucking things up for ALL Americans.

If the world decides to retaliate, it is going to hurt OUR jobs.