Turk Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 (edited) 15 February 2014 Last updated at 19:22 German Chancellor Angela Merkel is proposing building up a European communications network to help improve data protection. It would avoid emails and other data automatically passing through the United States. In her weekly podcast, she said she would raise the issue on Wednesday with French President Francois Hollande. Revelations of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) have prompted huge concern in Europe. Disclosures by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden suggested even the mobile phones of US allies, such as Mrs Merkel, had been monitored by American spies. Classified NSA documents revealed that large amounts of personal data are collected from the internet by US and British surveillance. Mrs Merkel criticised the fact that Facebook and Google can be based in countries with low levels of data protection while carrying out business in nations that offer more rigorous safeguards. "Above all, we'll talk about European providers that offer security for our citizens, so that one shouldn't have to send emails and other information across the Atlantic," she said. "Rather, one could build up a communication network inside Europe." Sensitive There was no doubt that Europe had to do more in the realm of data protection, she said. A French official was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that the government in Paris planned to take up the German initiative. Personal privacy is a sensitive issue in Germany where extensive surveillance was carried out under the Nazis and in communist East Germany. A foreign policy spokesman for Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats, Philipp Missfelder, recently said revelations about US spying had helped bring relations with Washington down to their worst level since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Germany has been trying to persuade Washington to agree to a "no-spy" agreement but without success. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26210053 Edited February 16, 2014 by Turk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212eta Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Germany has been trying to persuade Washington to agree to a "no-spy" agreement but without success.No further comment... :coolwink: :think: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLord Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Hehehe EU is way behind Iran in this matter. We started much earlier without waiting for NSA, CIA, MI6,... to show us the importance/need for such implementation. Join the club EU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackchildcx Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 thats right...thats why merkel is done here"!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) . Edited April 28, 2019 by CODYQX4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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