"Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA"
*Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA** * /National Security Agency head and Internet giant's executives have coordinated through high-level policy discussions/ May 6, 2014 5:00AM ET by Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold Email exchanges between National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt suggest a far cozier working relationship between some tech firms and the U.S. government than was implied by Silicon Valley brass after last year's revelations about NSA spying. Disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the agency's vast capability for spying on Americans' electronic communications prompted a number of tech executives whose firms cooperated with the government to insist they had done so only when compelled by a court of law. But Al Jazeera has obtained two sets of email communications dating from a year before Snowden became a household name that suggest not all cooperation was under pressure. On the morning of June 28, 2012, an email from Alexander invited Schmidt to attend a four-hour-long "classified threat briefing" on Aug. 8 at a "secure facility in proximity to the San Jose, CA airport." [...] Continua qui: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html
Tutto molto interessante, occorre comunque sottolineare come nelle democrazie occidentali questi problemi prima o poi emergano e siano fatti oggetto di pubblica discussione, anche grazie ai media. In molte altre parti del globo analoghe azioni e reazioni sono impensabili. Questo per ricordare che è giusto chiedere di migliorare ad alcuni, ma allo stesso tempo serve non dimenticare molte altre situazioni in cui il controllo sociale da parte di soggetti pubblici e privati è la regola. Situazioni sovente accettate e tollerate per meri interessi economici dagli Stati (US ed EU) che oggi sono sotto accusa per questi programmi. Alessandro -- http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero On Tue, 06 May 2014 19:54:13 +0200 "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
*Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA** * /National Security Agency head and Internet giant's executives have coordinated through high-level policy discussions/ May 6, 2014 5:00AM ET by Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold
Email exchanges between National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt suggest a far cozier working relationship between some tech firms and the U.S. government than was implied by Silicon Valley brass after last year's revelations about NSA spying.
Disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the agency's vast capability for spying on Americans' electronic communications prompted a number of tech executives whose firms cooperated with the government to insist they had done so only when compelled by a court of law.
But Al Jazeera has obtained two sets of email communications dating from a year before Snowden became a household name that suggest not all cooperation was under pressure.
On the morning of June 28, 2012, an email from Alexander invited Schmidt to attend a four-hour-long "classified threat briefing" on Aug. 8 at a "secure facility in proximity to the San Jose, CA airport."
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Continua qui: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html
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