EU says don’t use Facebook if you’re worried about NSA spying

[thai tech]

EU says don’t use Facebook if you’re worried about NSA spying



The dozens of Edward Snowden revelations, which uncovered the mass spying and data collection activities carried out by the world’s most important agencies including GCHQ and the NSA, have revealed that various US tech companies may also be involved – willingly or not, in some of the NSA’s programmes.

The leaks claimed that the NSA has access to personal data from many US companies including Facebook, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple. That access to information may be much greater than initially believed, as they could in fact the US-EU “Safe Harbor Framework” for transatlantic data transfer and trade deals.

In a recent case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the European Commission said that the Safe Harbor Framework doesn’t sufficiently protect EU citizen’s personal data from US spying. A solution is not coming anytime soon, according to a report from euobserver.

Unsurprisingly, the best way to prevent succumbing to such spying operations by the NSA, is to stop using various US based online services, including Facebook, until they open data centres in Europe at least.

Read more: http://tech.thaivisa.com/dont-use-faebook-nsa-spying/7759/

[Rancid]

Its hardly just Facebook, most of the big US tech firms are on the NSA payroll, obviously for giving up user information.

[Ricardo]

Its hardly just Facebook, most of the big US tech firms are on the NSA payroll, obviously for giving up user information.

Are they actually paid to do it, or just not given any option, I wonder ?

IMO there would be a difference.

[Credo]

How simplistic. Do you think only the NSA can spy on you on facebook? Pretty much everyone can get access to your information.

The days of privacy are long, long gone.