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EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Daniel Ellsberg on Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America

11 June 2013

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"In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden's whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an "executive coup" against the US constitution."

Full article: Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America: Snowden's whistleblowing gives us a chance to roll back what is tantamount to an 'executive coup' against the US constitution (Guardian, link)

World leaders seek answers on US collection of communication data - Data protection chiefs and analysts in EU, Pakistan, South Africa and Canada express concerns at revelations in leaks (Guardian, link)

The European Parliament plenary session this morning (11 June) is discussing: "US Internet surveillance of EU citizens (NSA PRISM programme): Commission statement": EU to seek privacy guarantees from US after intel scandal (link)

- Spy scandal to impact talks on EU-US data treaty (euobserver, link)
- US data surveillance worries German expert (DW, link) article by Thilo Weichert
- Time for Europe to stop being complicit in NSA's crimes (New Europe, link)
- US data scandal deepens EU-US divide on privacy (euractiv, link)
- US scandal shows EU needs 'highest standards' on data privacy (Public Service Europe, link)

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