Re: [privacy] US vs EU

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

Brian,

This is just one story. There are privacy breaches and privacy
supporters in the UK, just like there are here. This story is from the
register, which is a UK based paper. They are going to take the
position that their country is better than ours. It is important to
note where a story is coming from and see the bias in the articles.

After establishing where the bias is (and therefore what you cannot
trust) you can now read the article for the bits of information that
are of import or useful/interesting. Namely, in this article, the US
vs UK "who can snoop on who" battles which I thought was interesting.

-JP<dont believe everything you read>

On 8/28/06, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
> On 8/28/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:06:47 CDT, Brian Loe said:
> >
> > > European "privacy guardians"?! Its amazing, three months of these
> > > stories, arrests centering around intelligence finds and still not a
> > > single mention of European intelligence groups...like they're all just
> > > sitting around with their thumbs up their arses or something. What
> > > gives? Surely someone has to eventually ask what Miwhatever is doing,
> > > right?
> >
> > Perhaps MI[1..6] are content with being quiet and actually *doing* stuff,
> > while the US TLAs feel the need to *be seen as* doing stuff....
>
> That's an interesting take. It seems to me that the US agencies would
> very much like to stay quiet - but they keep getting outed on the
> front pages of our newspapers. That has nothing, however, to do with
> the question I posed. My question refers to why there are no questions
> in the European press, or here in the US for that matter, discussing
> what M* is doing - even though they're certainly doing something and
> are quite likely to be doing the SAME things as the FBI/CIA/NSA guys
> are. Instead the story posted reads like Europe is full of privacy
> advocates (who apparently don't mind being on camera every waking
> second of the day) and NO intelligence groups!
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