It does not really help if every other neighbouring country does the same. NSA will get danish info elsewhere. Everyone gets played.
It works as long as USA is an trusthworthy ally. They wouldn't dare to abuse the information for private gains... right?
They already abuse this, I would even go as far and say that huge portion of data collection is just for industrial espionage to prop up government backed companies.
If you are developing a novel algorithm or even a different approach to AI then you should absolutely setup an offline work office otherwise either USA or China will take your work and give it to a government backed company. It also doesn’t matter if your company is located in the USA or if you are an American citizen, so long as you don’t have governmental connections, you have to be 100% more careful as game is pretty much rigged.
EDIT for clarity.
Today in fact, I got my Postman to sign an affidavit that he has "a strong and nearly binding interest in my stability, security, prosperity, etc".
In a larger sense, the arrangement might, to a degree, defeat the purpose of having separate foreign and domestic intelligence agencies, but that is a more abstract notion. I guess we'll see what the Danish public will think or do about.
> "I can not at all imagine in my imagination that the NSA would betray that trust. I consider it completely and utterly unlikely. If the NSA had a desire to obtain information about Danish citizens or companies, the United States would simply turn to [the domestic security service] PET, which would then provide the necessary legal basis."
I definitely think it would make more sense to give up on using the system on the citizens of a single small country, in exchange for not risking the extensive access to citizens of many other countries, including China and Russia.
If they want to investigate danes, they still have all their other methods at disposal.
Their responsibilities and mission are clear. There are no style points. They'll do whatever it takes to accomplish that mission. History is very clear about this M.O.
I mean, sure, they can lie about it, but that always carries a risk of being found out. Especially considering it sounds like from the article that FE can see who the NSA is searching for (and even has to approve the search queries).
While I find the above quote hilarious, you're probably right since the article also hints that they have a similar setup in Germany and most likely also in Sweden, Norway and many other surrounding countries. And since most of their comms probably also go through those, they'll just eavesdrop on the next hop and bypass all that trust and save themselves any potential political repercussions.
German BND did nothing to verify any selectors asked by the NSA and just ran them without any safeguards. During the investigation into those practices it turned out the NSA used that trust to run over forty thousand selectors that are in violation of german interests. From what can be cobbled together from media reports that includes german industry, german government, other european governments, the EU itself, multiple european defense industries, every single foreign embassy in Berlin, delegates to the UN, NGOs like Human Rights Watch, and multiple Universities, among others. More then two thirds of all targets were friendlies within EU or NATO.
We joke that "german secret service" is the service that tells the usa about german secrets.
At the end of the day, this will rely on trusting the NSA despite their dubious history.
Governments that gate human rights on nationality are fundamentally amoral, and should never be trusted to self-regulate.
Even more surprising that DK hasn't been paying attention to any of that apparently...
What do you think intelligence is?
The President then added a word of encouragement to the several thousand men and women of CIA:
'...but I am sure you realize how important is your work, how essential it is - and in the long sweep of history how significant your efforts will be judged. So I do want to express my appreciation to you now, and I am confident that in the future you will continue to merit the appreciation of your country, as you have in the past.'
It is hardly reasonable to expect proper understanding and support for intelligence work in this country if it is only the insiders, a few people within the executive and legislative branches, who know anything whatever about the CIA. Others continue to draw their knowledge from the so-called inside stories by writers who have never been on the inside."
- Allen W. Dulles, 'The Craft of Intelligence'
One gets the impression his claim that all the CIA's successes are secret is a lie. Because there never were any. You would thing 50 years after the man kicked it that at least something would be come out. Not really surprising. If you look at how successful organizations are structured the CIA is not that.
Who do you think fought and won the cold war, Seal Team Six?
Imagine thinking those are two separate things.
Do you have any evidence to make this claim?
Or perhaps politicians are the experts at both telling and detecting lies and manipulations?
Maybe they know the risks very well and yet chose their own personal interest e.g. non making enemies of the US...