Publication

This memo examines the response in the EU to the 2013 Edward Snowden revelations about US surveillance practices. The author contends that despite public outrage and political concern over the revelations, the EU and its member states have not taken steps to protect their citizens from the mass collection of their data by either foreign or domestic security services. He then argues that there needs to be a transatlantic public discussion about the role, limits, and oversight of surveillance as well as the limits of government surveillance in other territories.