Email exchanges between the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) General Keith Alexander and the executives of Google Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt testify to a much more comfortable cooperative relationship than Google's after revelations last year by Edward Snowden.
Al Jazeera news agency today released two emails dating back to a year before Snowden began his disclosures of secretive activities serviceof the USA.
On the morning of June 28, 2012, an email from Keith Alexander invited Schmidt to attend a four-hour classified information για εξωτερικές απειλές” και στις 8 Αυγούστου σε μια συνάντηση που θα γινόταν σε μια «ασφαλή εγκατάσταση κοντά στο San Jose, της Καλιφόρνια.”
"Specific issues will be discussed at the meeting, for guidance, on mobile threats and security," Keith Alexander said in the e-mail.
Keith Alexander, Schmidt and other tech executives had met earlier, according to the message. But Keith Alexander wanted another meeting with Schmidt and "a small group of CEOs" later that summer because the government needed Silicon Valley help.
"About six months ago, we started discussions focusing on mobile security," said Keith Alexander. "With a team (mainly Google, Apple and Microsoft), we recently had an agreement on a set of basic security principles."
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center, said she believed the exchange of information between technology companies and the government was "absolutely necessary", but at the same time, there was a risk to users' privacy and safety. from the way vulnerabilities are revealed. ”
The challenge facing the government and Companies τεχνολογίας είναι να ενισχύσουν την ασφάλεια, χωρίς να διακυβεύεται η προστασία της ιδιωτικής ζωής, ανέφερε ο Granick. Τα μηνύματα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου μεταξύ του Keith Alexander και των στελεχών της Google, δείχνουν “το ότι η ανεπίσημη ανταλλαγή πληροφοριών, γίνεται κρυφά, δεν υπάρχει διαφάνεια, ή μια μεθοδολογία για να φτάνουν οι πληροφορίες για την ασφάλεια στα σωστά χέρια.”
Read them emails leaked from Al Jazeera.com
