Yahoo CEO: We’ll Go To Prison If We Don’t Obey NSA - TopicsExpress



          

Yahoo CEO: We’ll Go To Prison If We Don’t Obey NSA b4in.org/fJb The National Security Agency threatened to label technology executives traitors and send them to prison if they did not collaborate with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has told reporters. Releasing any data about the surveillance programs would have led to criminal charges and incarceration for technology officials, Mayer said to reporters. “If you don’t comply, it is treason,” Marissa Mayer said when asked why couldn’t be more forthcoming. “We can’t talk about it because it is classified. Releasing classified information is treason, and you are incarcerated. In terms of protecting our users, it makes more sense to work within the system.” She claimed that Yahoo has wanted to publish details of the surveillance requests since 2007 but could not because the requests are classified. It is illegal to reveal classified information to the public. Yahoo also unsuccessfully sued the foreign intelligence surveillance, or FISA, court, the federal court that authorizes surveillance. More b4in.org/fJb
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:46:42 +0000

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