Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets | Technology. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance. Mayer said executives faced jail if they revealed government secrets. Yahoo and Facebook, along with other tech firms, are pushing for the right to be allowed to publish the number of requests they receive from the spy agency.
Companies are forbidden by law to disclose how much data they provide. During an interview at the Techcrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Mayer was asked why tech companies had not simply decided to tell the public more about what the US surveillance industry was up to. "Releasing classified information is treason and you are incarcerated," she said. Mayer said she was "proud to be part of an organisation that from the beginning, in 2007, has been sceptical of – and has been scrutinizing – those requests [from the NSA].
" "I thought that was really bad," he said. Marissa Mayer: 'It's Treason' To Ignore The NSA. Jayrosen_nyu : CEO of Yahoo? Yeah, you should... Ggreenwald : It's a bit shocking that someone... Mark Zuckerberg: Government ‘blew it’ with NSA response - Michelle Quinn. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that the government “blew it” when it came to initially communicating about its surveillance programs and did not help American Internet firms trying to do business globally. While speaking at TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in San Francisco, Zuckerberg emphasized that it is his job “and our job to protect everyone who uses Facebook and all the information they share with us.” He said the government response put U.S. tech firms doing business overseas in a tough spot. Continue Reading “It’s our government’s job to protect all of us and also to protect our freedoms and protect our economy … and companies,” he added.
“And I think they did a bad job of balancing those things here. … So frankly, I think the government blew it. The White House has defended the National Security Agency programs, and President Barack Obama has noted that they include many checks and balances while only seeking targeted information. 'Jongeren keren Facebook de rug toe' Cisco’s disastrous quarter shows how NSA spying could freeze US companies out of a trillion-dollar opportunity. Cisco announced two important things in today’s earnings report: The first is that the company is aggressively moving into the Internet of Things—the effort to connect just about every object on earth to the internet—by rolling out new technologies.
The second is that Cisco has seen a huge drop-off in demand for its hardware in emerging markets, which the company blames on fears about the NSA using American hardware to spy on the rest of the world. Cisco chief executive John Chambers said on the company’s earnings call that he believes other American technology companies will be similarly affected. Cisco saw orders in Brazil drop 25% and Russia drop 30%. Both Brazil and Russia have expressed official outrage over NSA spying and have announced plans to curb the NSA’s reach. Analysts had expected Cisco’s business in emerging markets to increase 6%, but instead it dropped 12%, sending shares of Cisco plunging 10% in after-hours trading.
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