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When I worked for a data center/ISP, there would be occasional government calls. The protocol was to get the persons name, then call them back through the official list of contact numbers (FBI, NSA, CIA, etc).
Also a good strategy when your bank / insurance agency, etc. calls
Just tell them that they don't have any authority, and you're not interested to hear any manipulative reasoning. - Have a nice day.
Isn't the Netherlands under even worse surveillance than the US? There were many top posts on HN over the last week suggesting this.
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Isnt this a general behavior of typical stereotype american? Most of them believes America as theland of the law and anything else is savagery.
If the superpowers weren't countries but were instead the search engines of today then we could probably agree upon who would be Google and who would be Bing and so on. Do Google's users generally care about Bing, what Bing does, or what Bing thinks? (To stretch the metaphor almost to the point of breaking.) Most of Google's users don't think of Bing as a savage search engine but they do consider it irrelevant.
People outside have their own dreams, aspirations. Maybe their dreams are bigger than just building a photo sharing app.
Isn't the Netherlands under even worse surveillance than the US? There were many top posts on HN over the last week suggesting this.
Relatively, we probably have the highest number of phone taps in the world. In total there probably are over 25.000 phone numbers being tapped. Also, metadata of different types of communications are stored.
Although I'm fairly confident we're gonna win the legal and political battle over that issue in time. The Dutch government may be no better than that of the US on an ethical level, the legal balance between privacy protection and state secrecy is very different.
Why would the NSA think that data in the Netherlands was covered by US legislation!?!
Isnt this a general behavior of typical stereotype american? Most of them believes America as theland of the law and anything else is savagery.
Isn't this a general behavior of typical sterotype (you can't even speak english correctly) european? Most them believes europe as theland of the law and anything else is savagery.
Why even bother making posts like these? We get it, america and therefore vicariously all americans are horrible people, the devil, and should be wiped off the face of the earth. We get it, europeans hates americans. Can we all move on with our lives now?
Why would the NSA think that data in the Netherlands was covered by US legislation!?!
The NSA officer didn't hang up the phone and think "How dare he refuse to cooperate, it's the law!". Instead she thought "darn, that didn't work" and then called the next phone number on her list...
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If the superpowers weren't countries but were instead the search engines of today then we could probably agree upon who would be Google and who would be Bing and so on. Do Google's users generally care about Bing, what Bing does, or what Bing thinks? (To stretch the metaphor almost to the point of breaking.) Most of Google's users don't think of Bing as a savage search engine but they do consider it irrelevant.
^non-american citizens are people, how can you compare them with irrelevant search results? People outside have their own dreams, aspirations. Maybe their dreams are bigger than just building a photo sharing app.