Eyes everywhere: NSA's second tier spying partners identified
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[url]http://rt.com/news/denmark-nsa-signit-partner-516/[/url]
[QUOTE]Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and several other EU countries were named among “third party partners” in the NSA-led global signal intelligence program, a new leak submitted by journalist Glenn Greenwald to Danish TV reveals.
According to the document, obtained by Swedish TV program ‘Mission: Investigate’, that has been probing Sweden's participation in global spying operations, nine European countries were added to the list of NSA accomplices.
The "third party partners" to the Five Eyes nations has now grown to include nine states - [B]Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.[/B]
The newly-leaked document from Edward Snowden is the first written confirmation of Denmark's formal agreement with the NSA, the Copenhagen Post writes.
Denmark’s role in US spying scheme was labeled “very worrying” by Enhedslisten's Pernille Skipper, Danish parliamentarian. [/QUOTE]
Quite an interesting read.
More unsurprising news I see. The list of those [i]not[/i] being spied on would be more of a surprise. (if there are any)
I'm pretty disappointed that Denmark would work with the NSA, especially considering that even our god damn Prime Minister has talked about preserving our basic rights.
[QUOTE=Spetsnaz95;43249022]I'm pretty disappointed that Denmark would work with the NSA, especially considering that even our god damn Prime Minister has talked about preserving our basic rights.[/QUOTE]
Like a small country's government can resist brownie points from a big player like the US.
I'm sorry to say but everyone spies on eachother, countries act so shocked when they discover someones been spying on them when they do exactly the same. Not to say its right, but lets not forget spying isn't a new thing that is exclusive to America.
[QUOTE=Vasili;43249714]I'm sorry to say but everyone spies on eachother, countries act so shocked when they discover someones been spying on them when they do exactly the same. Not to say its right, but lets not forget spying isn't a new thing that is exclusive to America.[/QUOTE]
10:30 in explains pretty well why in my opinion the "everyone spies" statement doesn't have much validity to it
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CqVYUOjHLw[/media].
I didn't even know Belgium has an intelligence agency :v:
Ffs spain
I thought you didnt give a shit about internet piracy and all that.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;43249751]10:30 in explains pretty well why in my opinion the "everyone spies" statement doesn't have much validity to it
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I cannot watch now, I will later.
Couldn't this be revealed sooner? Many politicians here said that they didn't know nothing about the spying and now many Germans voted for those people.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;43249751]10:30 in explains pretty well why in my opinion the "everyone spies" statement doesn't have much validity to it
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Why the disagrees? He has a really good point.
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[QUOTE=Medevila;43250155]'Other country's spying laws and infrastructure are ok because the elephant in the room is the United States'[/QUOTE]
Can't remember ever visiting a site in sweden, yet I'm using google daily. I don't see what's so stupid about it-
I like how Poland is so irrelevant nobody even cars about us.
[QUOTE=The Saiko;43250279]Why the disagrees?[/QUOTE]
Because it's applying different standards of behavior based on where web traffic goes, and that's absurd. According to his argument, Sweden's A-OK because, frankly, it doesn't matter as far as the Internet's concerned. But if Sweden became a popular web host, then suddenly the intrusive spying that was just fine before is now bad because... it's being used more? Because apparently intrusive spying is okay when it's only being used against a few people?
His argument is basically that spying is only bad when you are personally affected by it, and that's a narrow-minded and logically inconsistent view. If what the US is doing is wrong then what Sweden and every other participating country is doing is equally wrong. It doesn't become less wrong to spy on other nations if you don't get the opportunity often, it's still the exact same policy implemented the exact same way.
The point is that when it comes to nations spying on other nations, it's been around a long time and it's going to continue, and it's done by all nations. At the moment this is all just manufactured outrage for political gain, because it's not news to anyone in power.
[QUOTE=Spetsnaz95;43249022]I'm pretty disappointed that Denmark would work with the NSA, especially considering that even our god damn Prime Minister has talked about preserving our basic rights.[/QUOTE]
Well we are kind of the USA's booty call, and our government waves flags in pride whenever we're called, so it was kinda obvious it'd happen.
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