This will hopefully signal a trend of newspapers other than The Guardian standing up against privacy issues (I've no doubt it's already happening outside the UK, but there's a language barrier for me in reading them). In the UK we're pretty much stuffed: most of our papers are owned by powerful people (i.e. Rupert Murdoch) who pretty much control who stays in power, and they're likely avoiding talking about it so as to gain favours later on. As far as I've seen all the other papers are either ignoring the NSA/GCHQ story or actively attacking The Guardian. I've no doubt that the government will completely ignore this message, but I'm really grateful to see the issue being raised outside the UK.<p>I'm starting to wonder if our only way out of this mess is via EU intervention. The tories and their supporters will cry foul, but the EU is supposed to stand for a lot of freedoms and it'd be nice to see it being enforced. Whether the EU as an entity would stand up to the USA though, remains to be seen.
I hope this isn't HN karma suicide, but as pleased as I am (as a Swede) that one of our better newspapers is participating in this, I wish they'd spent the time to rid it of spelling errors and grammatical errors. I think I can be excused for mine in a HN comment, but they can't for theirs in a public letter to the British PM. Other than that, good job.
The version on Politiken: <a href="http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE2057284/documentation-read-the-open-letter-to-david-cameron-here/" rel="nofollow">http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE2057284/documentation-r...</a>
for people like me who have no idea what this is about, can't really understand it from TFA, I presume this would be the "events of the last week", please correct me if I'm wrong<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-usa-security-snowden-britain-idUSBRE97K0G920130821" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-usa-security-sn...</a>