Cardiff Billboard Goes All Bad....

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-40802887



(continued, normal for Wales....)

[Hermit]

normal for Wales....)

Hacking is no more normal for Wales than for any other part of the world.

[cronus]

normal for Wales....)

Hacking is no more normal for Wales than for any other part of the world.

The new normal then...

[Scot Dutchy]

This one is of the present day in Britain

[Rum]

How so?

[Scot Dutchy]

Count your camera's.

[Forty Two]

Count your camera's.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-dutch- ... ven-nosier

[Rum]

My camera's what?

[JimC]

I blame Pappa...

[Hermit]

normal for Wales....)

Hacking is no more normal for Wales than for any other part of the world.

The new normal then...

OK. New normal it is - all over the world.

[PsychoSerenity]

I blame Pappa...

Could well be.

[Scot Dutchy]

My camera's what?

You are watched more than any other country.

[Strontium Dog]

My camera's what?

You are watched more than any other country.

They say the camera adds 10 pounds, now I know why I look so fat.

[Rum]

My camera's what?

You are watched more than any other country.

Are you sure you aren't German?

[Forty Two]

"According to the Max Planck Institute, you're 100 times more likely to be surveilled by your own government if you live in the Netherlands or you live in Italy," Baker said. "You're 30 to 50 times more likely to be surveilled if you're a French or a German national than in the United States."

Those numbers are generally accurate, says Joris van Hoboken of the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam.

...the national security investigations are done completely in the dark or mostly in the dark." He cites Germany's Office of Criminal Investigation as an example.

"It's permitted to use a computer virus to search IT systems and to monitor communications and collect data, without the knowledge of users or service providers," Wolf says. "And while a court order is needed to use it, the service providers often aren't even aware of its deployment."

Van Hoboken, the Dutch information researcher, does not disagree that oversight is weaker in Europe.

"It's actually true that in general the laws here that allow national security agencies and intelligence community to do wiretapping, there are less details and sometimes even less procedural safeguards," he says.

http://www.npr.org/2013/07/28/206231873 ... -or-europe