The release of Oliver Stone’s movie “Snowden” (trailer below) has sparked renewed debate on whether President Obama should pardon the exiled Snowden. The ACLU, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called for his pardon for revealing the that the NSA was collecting domestic telephone “metadata” — information about the time of a call…
Snowden told his SXSW Skype audience: The NSA…they’re setting fire to the future of the Internet. And the people in this room, you guys are the firefighters. We need you to help us fix this, Snowden wanted to address the technorati in Austin and the policy wonks in Washington because: The tech community are the…
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Tags Google for Medical BT In only her second month on the job, Interim Privacy Commissioner Chantal Bernier took on one of the giants of the Internet – Google. Bernier cited Google for sending targeted ads for medical conditions based on consumer searches which violates Canada’s “Privacy and Online Behavioural Advertising Guidelines”…
Analyst: “NSA Scandal Will Kill US Tech Industry” In September we reported about some of the initial economic fallout from the NSA surveillance scandal and that impact is only growing more severe. At that time, Forrester had estimated the scandal could cost US cloud service providers $180 billion or a 25% hit to overall IT service…
It has been five months since Edward Snowden and NSA operations such as PRISM first splashed across the front pages worldwide. During this period, the scope of the scandal has only grown through nearly weekly revelations of further NSA transgressions. While the “golden rule” of scandal management is prompt and full disclosure, the NSA scandal…
Google-Microsoft FISA Petitions As the NSA PRISM controversy broke, Google and Microsoft filed petitions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court challenging gag orders that prevented it from disclosing the nature of information requested of it and supplied to the NSA. Around this time, both companies were signatories to a letter (see below) by…
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