Snowden warnt vor Industriespionage durch Geheimdienste

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Bitte, wir sprechen nicht Deutsche!

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Snowden says that NSA analysts underlie no oversight. They can search after what they want, without any oversight or assesment. He says that industrial espionage from NSA is a reality.

unfortunately there is a wealth of substantiated and credible history that shows just about all state-level espionage outfits engage in, if not focus on, industrial espionage.
the US certainly didn't put a man on the moon with a clean room implementation...

"They all do it" is not a compelling argument. The Latvian state surveillance potato is about as much a match for the NSA as Latvian air power (two unarmed helicopters) is for the USAF. There are places that have very low levels of surveillance simply because their governments, no matter how perfidious their intentions, haven't got the gear.
They're not using those helicopters to fly Stingrays over Riga. That would burn the whole spying budget in a week. Compare that to the number of PDs in the US that have multiple aircraft that, in fact, are flying Stingrays around collecting our whereabouts.
We are objectively less free, and have vastly less privacy, than many other countries. And for what?

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