{"id":24341,"date":"2014-06-26T22:41:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=24341"},"modified":"2014-06-26T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:41:29","slug":"germany-drops-verizon-internet-contract-over-nsa-spying-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/nsa-spying\/germany-drops-verizon-internet-contract-over-nsa-spying-fears.php","title":{"rendered":"Germany drops Verizon internet contract over NSA spying fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Germany is irked that the NSA spied on its officials (including        its Chancellor), and today it responded by hitting the US    where it really hurts: the pocketbook. The German Ministry of    the Interior has     decided against renewing a Verizon internet service    contract that expires in 2015, in no small part due to worries    that the carrier must sometimes hand over     foreign data to the NSA. The country has to reject    companies that collaborate with the American intelligence    agency if it's going to meet the \"particularly high demands\" of    a critical communication infrastructure, according to the    Ministry.  <\/p>\n<p>    The nation had already been second-guessing the contract, so    Edward Snowden's NSA surveillance leaks were really just the    straws that broke the camel's back. However, the cancellation    still validates US tech firms' worst fears -- they're     losing business in countries which no longer feel they can    trust American outfits with sensitive info. It's too soon to    know whether this trend will continue, but it's clear that even    close US allies aren't afraid to cut corporate ties if they    believe their data is at risk.  <\/p>\n<p>    [Image credit: AFP Photo\/Jewel Samad]  <\/p>\n<p>        Comments       <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/06\/26\/germany-drops-verizon-contract\/?ncid=rss_truncated\/RK=0\/RS=vg6qlo3B94VRGflhdVsNIvoBHlo-\" title=\"Germany drops Verizon internet contract over NSA spying fears\">Germany drops Verizon internet contract over NSA spying fears<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Germany is irked that the NSA spied on its officials (including its Chancellor), and today it responded by hitting the US where it really hurts: the pocketbook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nsa-spying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}