The Data crown jewels on global Cyber Risk: New scenarios of Cyber-politics to debate on surveillance versus privacy. After two-year, stop-and-go legislative effort on the controversy of section 215 of the Patriot Act, the American Senate voted in plenary 77-to-17 on Sunday-night to move a House bill forward to object political conflict on surveillance vs. privacy. The Snowdens revelations in 2013 demonstrated how surveillance and privacy were untouchable in terms of legislation.”]
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