I must confess to a certain schadenfreude at seeing how governments that routinely try to curtail privacy rights are suddenly squawking about their own privacy rights. radunagi, to much schadenfreude is not good for the inside! by the way schadenfreude is a german word. in the past the USA send to Germany always their best Ambassadors,when i think to old kornblum he was Mister USA and Friend of Germany in one…everybody in Germany had known him….but 2009 obama send us this eloquent arrogant ambassador murphy, till last week i didn't know that he is ambassador in germany…. no wonder he was always undercover in Germany we have an justice Minister who is against citizen data collecting and storage…read what ambassador murphy cabled about our justice minister ¶4. (C) Over the past months, Ambassador Murphy, the DCM, and other embassy staff have engaged German government interlocutors, influential parliamentarians and law enforcement officials to stress the importance of security-related information sharing initiatives such as TFTP. However, in these meetings, our German counterparts consistently raise concerns about U.S. data protection measures and policy. Furthermore, the German views often distort and misrepresent U.S. policy. For example, current Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) – who has considerable influence – is particularly outspoken and does not appear to have (or perhaps want) an informed view of USG data privacy practices. It is critical that we aggressively and vocally counter these misrepresentations of U.S. policy ambassoador murphy
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