EU warns citizens to flee Facebook to avoid spying by US government and corporations - NaturalNews.com

EU warns citizens to flee Facebook to avoid spying by US government and corporations - NaturalNews.com

EU warns citizens to flee Facebook to avoid spying by US government and corporations

 (NaturalNews) If you're a Facebook user, the European Commission is warning that you're being spied on.

Recently,
a member of the EU warned European citizens that they ought to close
their Facebook accounts if they have any intentions of keeping their
personal information away from the prying eyes of U.S. intelligence
agencies, adding that current Safe Harbor legislation does not protect
their privacy or data.

Britain's Guardian newspaper
reports that the warning came from EC member Bernhard Schima in
reference to a case brought by privacy advocate Maximilian Schrems. The
case in question examined whether the data of EU citizens should be
considered safe if it is sent to the United States. Such concerns follow
earlier revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency and other American spy operations absorbed metadata from virtually every online source.

"You
might consider closing your Facebook account, if you have one," Schima
told attorney general Yves Bot during a hearing of the case at the
European Court of Justice in Luxembourg recently.