Saturday, July 27, 2013

Snooping USA lambasted by the German public.

By Belarmino Dabalos Saguing, Rome, Italy, Saturday. 27.07.2013 2000ICT




Thousands of people brave the sweltering heat to protest against the surveillance of internet users by US spy services.



Demonstrators went on the streets I Hamburg, Munich, Berlin and 35 other cities in Germany against what they call unwanted eavesdroppers. Others held placards showing support for National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden, who revealed documents detailing the agency's extensive secret surveillance programme known as Prism. The Prism revelations caused an international uproar against what many view as an invasion of privacy. The scandal has been especially contentious in Germany after media reports claimed the NSA had conducted wide scale gathering of electronic data, including e-mails, of German citizens.




German Chancellor Angela Merkel confronted US president and raised the issue of the NSA's alleged interception of Web traffic on US President Barack Obama’s  visit to Berlin last month.






Snowden leaks revealed that the US has been spying on its allies and partners, not only in Europe but on worldwide scale, sparking among others, the US-China row on cyber spying.


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