Facebook, Microsoft, Google and other American tech giants are complaining to President Obama about threats to their bottom lines. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took his complaint to the White House on Friday, saying the President's not doing enough to reassure foreign clients or guarantee civil liberties. Foreign clients, including governments, are afraid they're being spied on by the National Security Agency — fears costing the industry 25 percent of its revenue, or some $180 billion a year. Now the NSA's revealed that US companies knew what was happening even when they denied it. It takes draconian steps for individual Americans to protect their privacy. Is the value of NSA's intelligence gathering worth the economic and personal cost?
NSA Surveillance: Bad for Business and Personal Privacy
More
- Angwin on masking your location, protecting privacy
- Angwin's 'Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance'
- Center for Democracy & Technology on NSA surveillance
- Faraday bag
- Forester Research on possible cost of NSA's PRISM project to tech industry
- Tor browser
- TtP feature on PRISM, NSA collection of big data
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Guests:
- Claire Cain Miller - New York Times - @clairecm
- Joseph Lorenzo Hall - Center for Democracy & Technology - @JoeBeOne
- Jack Lerner - law professor UC Irvine, co-author of “Rap On Trial: A Legal Guide for Attorneys” - @jacklerner
- Julia Angwin - investigative journalist and founder of Proof News - @JuliaAngwin