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Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons

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On 2014-03-23 20:32, RS Wood wrote:
> From the «also, weather's better» department:

The weather better in Ireland? Ireland's so green because it gets so
much rain. (And the beer is rubbish. :-))

> Internet firm is known to be unhappy about snooping and would be
> under no obligation to hand over material under Irish laws
> 
> Theresa May summoned the internet giant Yahoo for an urgent meeting
> on Thursday to raise security concerns after the company announced
> plans to move to Dublin where it is beyond the reach of Britain's
> surveillance laws.
> 
> By making the Irish capital rather than London the centre of its
> European, Middle East and Africa operations, Yahoo cannot be forced
> to hand over information demanded by Scotland Yard and the
> intelligence agencies through "warrants" issued under Britain's
> controversial anti-terror laws.

When Edward Snowden started telling us about the extent to which our
government has used /our/ money to pay /their/ spies to spy on /us/,
people warned them that internet businesses would move to less intrusive
(and less oppressive) countries. That the oligarchs have such a need to
keep us under surveillance and cowed into unthinking submission suggests
that they are a lot less secure, and a lot more guilty, than their media
would have us believe.

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Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-23 20:32 +0000
  Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-24 07:28 +0000
    Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-24 09:55 +0000
    Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons comp.misc@expires-on-2014-04-02.usenet.andreas-borchert.de (Andreas F. Borchert) - 2014-03-25 16:25 +0000
  Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-24 08:58 +0000
  Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons JJ <jjdane@nospamgmail.com> - 2014-03-24 13:20 +0100
    Re: Yahoo move to Ireland for GCHQ security reasons Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-24 20:58 +0100

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