“According to a survey from the Cloud Security Alliance, an industry nonprofit with forty-eight thousand members, ten per cent of two hundred and seven officials at non-U.S. companies cancelled contracts with U.S. service providers after Edward Snowden’s disclosures about N.S.A. surveillance, in June and July. Fifty-six per cent of non-U.S. respondents also indicated that they were hesitant to work with any U.S.-based cloud-computing companies. Researchers have predicted that the cloud-computing industry as a whole stands to lose large sums; estimates range from the tens of billions to around a hundred billion by 2016. .... “Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, recently stated, ‘There’s been spying for years, there’s been surveillance for years, and so forth, I’m not going to pass judgment on that, it’s the nature of our society.’ “Recently declassified documents show that the telecoms have not challenged any of the orders that compel them to provide all of their customers’ calling records to the government. The biggest carrier, Verizon, has even argued in court that it has a right to share customer data with the N.S.A.”
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:16:27 +0000
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