BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended government monitoring of Internet communications on Monday, saying a day before President Barack Obama visits Berlin that Washington's cyber-snooping had helped prevent attacks on German soil.
In an interview with broadcaster RTL, Merkel said she would ask Obama for details on the covert U.S. surveillance programme, code named PRISM, that has outraged Germans, with one politician likening U.S. tactics to those of the East German Stasi.
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