U.S. search warrant can acquire foreign cloud, email data

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No, Hitler never was after controlling the whole world.

Serious, after Snowdengate, Germany reassessed the threads several foreign nations pose to German politics and industry and business in form of hacking attacks and industrial espionage, and it was concluded that even before Russia or China, America now is the biggest attacker on Germany's cyber-infrastructure. We do not talk about about the potential to do so, but the quantity and qulity of actually carried out attacks.

America is the worst amongst all digital enemies striking at us - what kind of "partnership" is that meant to be? That renders the babbling about allied and befriended nations as useless and pointless.

Even more so since American demands for getting access to European banking data and American data-collection from tourists, have additionally been obeyed by the EU before (and served as a blueprint for the EU to implement such procedures against its subjects in Europe as well).

Add to all this the amount of private sensible data that too many people carelessly and voluntarily give away when using Google, Facebook, Twitter and the like - not just the info they knowingly enter, but the data that these companies extract from their systems without people being aware of it. Too many people think they are safe if they switch off just this or that option off. They are not, Google repeatedly featured dummy switches in the past, for example. The problem also is that too many people are more or less clueless regarding what these data can be used for, and to what a scaring degree they can be used to profile people and predict (and in the end: control and manipulate) their behavior, decisions, lives, if that is wanted.

Intel services and private business in the US have formed up an unholy alliance already long time ago. The protests voiced by Microsoft now, and others on different occasions, are just theatre play.