Angry Jesus writes:
"German language magazine 'Bild am Sonntag' reports that, in response to Obama's recent order to stop spying on Angela Merkel and other heads of 'friendly' states, the NSA has instead ramped up spying on everybody Merkel communicates with. Cory Doctorow points out that this action demonstrates that the NSA is out of control and deliberately disobeying a presidential order with a level of duplicity worthy of a four year-old."
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:39AM
More over North Korea actively tries to spy on the US and there is pretty much nothing anyone can do to stop it, but fortunately their resources are limited. If the US wants to get into a spying war with Germany though things could turn ugly really fast, not least because Germany is a powerful voice in the EU. As we have already seen it looks like US companies will eventually be locked out of the EU market.
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(Score: 1) by unimatrix on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:08PM
Germany, France, and other EU countries actively try to spy on the United States and US Businesses as well. Hell France dedicates about a quarter of their foreign intelligence budget towards "economic espionage" which is mainly Spying on US and British businesses and giving that info to French companies. And they've done so for decades. It's an open secret and anyone inside the beltway, this isn't exactly new news.