The Paris terror attacks probably would have been stopped if Snowden/Guardian never happened or was better controlled in how the specific details were announced.
Citation needed. What do you know of their electronic communications?
The thing is, even if it was true, which I frankly doubt... would it be worth it? The direction many US and EU politicians, especially David Cameron [1], want to go in, is a world without privacy, except for the governments (which means, in practice, a world where every government and cybercriminal can spy on your communications at any time). Even if it could prevent all terrorist attacks (which it won't, because drowning the security services in more data human analysts can process in a lifetime is a ridiculously bad idea...), this wouldn't be a society I would want to live in.
1: Who, at this point, appears to be either raving mad, a complete idiot, or O'Brien from 1984 in disguise.
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Citation needed. What do you know of their electronic communications?
The thing is, even if it was true, which I frankly doubt... would it be worth it? The direction many US and EU politicians, especially David Cameron [1], want to go in, is a world without privacy, except for the governments (which means, in practice, a world where every government and cybercriminal can spy on your communications at any time). Even if it could prevent all terrorist attacks (which it won't, because drowning the security services in more data human analysts can process in a lifetime is a ridiculously bad idea...), this wouldn't be a society I would want to live in.
1: Who, at this point, appears to be either raving mad, a complete idiot, or O'Brien from 1984 in disguise.
To add to this, the security services in France already knew about the threat from the Paris attackers and did nothing.