Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook 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.The Huffington Post
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.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on NSA data requests: ‘You don’t comply, it’s treason’
Dominic Rushe, The Guardian
4 comments:
The only treason around the US is the secret deals cut to keep the status quo at the expense of our working famiiies.
Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook are cowards. I would buy puts on these stocks for no other reason than that. By contrast, Edward Snowden is a patriot because he has risked everything to thwart the advance of a totalitarian surveillance police state in America.
Now comes Apple with fingerprint ID technology for new i-Phone. How long do you reckon before Apple is compelled to hand over (pun intended) finger print data bases for new i-Phone customers?
When did cowardice become synonymous with treason?
Day after Patrick Henry and Tom Paine died?
Meyers just the latest in a long line of cowards, who deserve neither the freedom nor security they seek to NOT defend.
someone tell Marissa that there's no free lunch?
The US is going to lose control of the Internet over this kind of heavy handedness.
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