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Snowden: EU Efforts To Thwart US Surveillance Likely To Fail

Says cloud servers won't "stop the NSA"

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European efforts to protect citizens' data against US surveillance by building their own national internet networks are likely to fail, Edward Snowden, the US contractor turned whistleblower, has warned. 

In a television interview with German public broadcaster ARD, filmed in Russia, Mr Snowden said national cloud servers were "not going to stop the NSA".