Interception of Communications Commissioner's Office (IOCCO)

interesting article with a long title: caspar bowden, closed circuit television for inside your head: blanket traffic data retention and the emergency anti terrorism legislation, 2002

in 2013 he was invited to brief the eu parliament, talking about the impact of the us surveillance programmes on eu citizens', and he begins with these two quotes:

“Our government in its very nature, and our open society in all its instinct, under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights automatically outlaws intelligence organizations of the kind that have developed in police states” (Allen Dulles, 1963)

and

"There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society" (Eric Schmidt, Executive chairman of Google, 2013) |

today's news: from rip to drip (application/doc, 153 KB)

thesis since the 1960s within the EC/EU: it is easier for european industry to do business with the us than with their neighbors.

There are at least three hypotheses referring to the consequences of the trans- nationalization of production processes:

The importance of the nation state is declining.

a no-go within europe to accept and to announce in public.

The significance of the geographic division of the world into North and South, Core and Periphery is declining.

nothing to add.

A transnational capitalist class is emerging which transforms into a class-for-itself. | michael nollert, transnational corporate ties: a synopsis of theories and empirical findings, journal of world-system research, 2005

all intertwined.