The country’s home affairs minister, Ronald Plasterk, expressed annoyance that the U.S. agency hadn’t asked first. However, he said, the monitoring “only concerns metadata, like who called who.” Dutch lawyers and journalists aren’t so quite so sanguine about the matter, largely because their professions require confidentiality – something you can’t guarantee clients and sources when you’re potentially being monitored. On Wednesday, the Dutch Association of Defense Counsels and the Dutch Association of Journalists joined a broad coalition in suing Plasterk and the country’s government, demanding that the state stop using data recorded in the Netherlands by the NSA. gigaom/2013/11/06/dutch-lawyers-and-journalists-sue-government-over-nsa-links/
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