Comment Amusingly? (Score 1) 266
An arguably dated New York Times article:
A broadcast of Netwerk (a critical dutch news service) this week, stated again that the dutch police were more Orwellian regarding to phone-tapping than the US. In absolute figures! The police were also criticized for being too focused on tapping phonecalls for criminal investigation. Now encryption can rule out the means of phone-tapping, the investigation process can be crippled by a large extent."In absolute figures, the Dutch tap three times more phone lines than the U.S. agencies. Imagine if you correct this figure for the population's size,"...
