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German government to drop Verizon because of US spying

Posted on June 27, 2014 by pogowasright.org

Stephen Lawson reports:

The German government is dropping Verizon Communications as a service provider because of worries about U.S. spying.

The government will shift all services provided by Verizon to Deutsche Telekom by the end of 2015. It had been reviewing its communications contracts already, but concerns about possible spying by the U.S. National Security Agency helped to tip the scales against Verizon, the German Federal Interior Ministry said Thursday.

Read more on Computerworld.

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