{"id":93546,"date":"2013-06-30T02:09:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=93546"},"modified":"2013-07-01T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T07:04:08","slug":"secret-european-deals-to-hand-over-private-data-to-us-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/secret-european-deals-to-hand-over-private-data-to-us-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret European Deals To Hand Over Private Data To US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six\u00a0European Union\u00a0countries in addition to Britain have been colluding with the US over the mass harvesting of personal communications data, according to a former contractor to America&#8217;s National Security Agency, who said the public should not be &#8220;kept in the dark&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/29\/european-private-data-america\">the Guardian<\/a><\/span> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Guardian; Wayne Madsen, a former US navy lieutenant who first worked for the\u00a0NSA\u00a0in 1985 and over the next 12 years held several sensitive positions within the agency, names Denmark, the Netherlands, France,\u00a0Germany, Spain and Italy as having secret deals with the US.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93547\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/secret-european-deals-to-hand-over-private-data-to-us-revealed\/wayne-madsen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93547\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93547\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93547\" title=\"Wayne Madsen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wayne-Madsen-010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wayne-Madsen-010.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wayne-Madsen-010-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">yne Madsen, an NSA worker for 12 years, has revealed that six EU countries, in addition to the UK, colluded in data harvesting.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":93547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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