European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM
As a someone from Europe (Germany), I can say that this whole affair is definitely a public relations disaster for the US over here. In the beginning, I was really unsure if regular people who are not members of the tech community would become aware of this or if it was perceived as to much of a niche topic.<p>Well, I guess that question has been answered: Yesterday tagesschau[1], the biggest and most trusted evening television news show carried a short segment about it. Today I read that Merkel herself wants to bring this up at her next meeting with Obama.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/sendung/ts42578.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/sendung/ts42578.html</a> at about 7:30