Re: People in glass houses ...
@The Specialist, et al; From your comment and others elsewhere in the thread, people seem to be assuming(?) that it's the US *government* who said this. No-one appears to have spotted that this isn't what the story claims at all:-
"UK authorities should not be granted access to data held by American companies because British laws don't meet human rights obligations, nine nonprofits have said."
"In a letter to [emphasis: "to", not "by"] the US Department of Justice, organisations including Human Rights Watch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation set out their concerns about the UK's surveillance and data retention regimes."
If you still want to engage in point-scoring because they're Americans regardless and their government is worse than the UK's, then- whether or not that's the case- I'd argue that you're distracting from the fact they probably have a legitimate point and are playing into the hands of authoritarian types on *both* sides of the Pond.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
