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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