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Not really, because as a German I've been directly affected by said hypocrisy and even when it came to light [0], quite spectacularly too, nothing changed.

That's why I consider this current push of "China spying on everybody" quite cynical as it tries to sell a narrative where FiveEyes spying is the benevolent BigBrother only trying to protect us, but Chinese spying is evil incarnate.

At this point, Germany might as well just go full-on post-privacy and just share all data about everybody with everybody, instead of playing these pretend games of "We care about privacy, except when it's in the way of US national security interests", which is an extremely weird stance to have for any country that's not the US.

[0] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/20140...



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