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In reply to the discussion: ‘Unacceptable and shocking’: France demands explanation for NSA spying [View all]newthinking
(3,982 posts)And you are clearly either believing it or promoting it.
There is obviously some serious arm twisting going on as there is a serious international tension occurring that is all over the press outside this country but very little in our media about.
As for what the French have done, there is no indication it is anywhere near similar in depth/breadth or that it is even similar to the apparatus we have.
This is getting tense because it appears to have broken every boundary including not only corporate, but tapping the phones of world leaders. There is nothing indicating that the French have broken all those same bounderies.
All countries are coming to grips with the need to be more sensitive to how we breach privacy vs how we protect it. But our programs are leagues further and deeper than theirs. You just can't say they are "equivilent".