EU Parliament committee condemns NSA and GCHQ spying, invites Snowden to testify via video link
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[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/09/nsa-gchq-illegal-european-parliamentary-inquiry[/url]
[quote]Mass surveillance programmes used by the US and Britain to spy on people in Europe have been condemned in the "strongest possible terms" by the first parliamentary inquiry into the disclosures, which has demanded an end to the vast, systematic and indiscriminate collection of personal data by intelligence agencies.
The inquiry by the European parliament's civil liberties committee says the activities of America's National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart, GCHQ, appear to be illegal and that their operations have "profoundly shaken" the trust between countries that considered themselves allies.
The 51-page draft report, obtained by the Guardian, was discussed by the committee on Thursday. Claude Moraes, the rapporteur asked to assess the impact of revelations made by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, also condemns the "chilling" way journalists working on the stories have been intimidated by state authorities.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25669448[/url]
[quote]Euro MPs have agreed to invite fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden to give evidence via live video link to a European Parliament inquiry into US surveillance.
Mr Snowden is in Russia, wanted by the US over his revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) snooping.
The parliamentary Civil Liberties Committee vote was passed by 36 votes in favour, two against and one abstention. No date has been fixed yet.
The MEPs are contacting his lawyers.[/quote]
Good, shit needs to end now.
We need accessible holograms so he could actually stand at the podium visually and shit. That would be rad.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;43488499]We need accessible holograms so he could actually stand at the podium visually and shit. That would be rad.[/QUOTE]
They have actually allocated $700 billion for the development of this technology within the next two weeks so Snowden can use it
I hope that whatever this'll do to the NSA/GCHQ extends to the other agencies that did the same and cooperated with them
It would be a shame if they got reigned in while the rest continued to do their thing
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;43488499]We need accessible holograms so he could actually stand at the podium visually and shit. That would be rad.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, inflated TV news CGI budgets has rendered holograms irreparably cheesy.
good guy EU
And people tell me the EU institutions are despotic entities.
What would be the outcome of this?
[QUOTE=RandomGamer342;43488603]I hope that whatever this'll do to the NSA/GCHQ extends to the other agencies that did the same and cooperated with them
It would be a shame if they got reigned in while the rest continued to do their thing[/QUOTE]
Snowden certainly had access to NSA AARs on Russian, Chinese, and European domestic surveillance and international espionage operations but has chosen not to reveal them to the public. I strongly doubt that anything will happen to anybody but the NSA and GCHQ because they're the only ones Snowden decided to put in the spotlight. Considering he's been praising Russian and Chinese commitment to civil liberties I don't think that situation is going to change.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;43488675]And people tell me the EU institutions are despotic entities.[/QUOTE]
As always even the EU suffers from senile farts or idiots in charge once in a while.
But the concept is solid and the afromented incidents aren't/isn't as often as the shit happening in the US.
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