Οκτώ από τις μεγαλύτερες εταιρείες τεχνολογίας, απογοητευμένες από τις αποκαλύψεις για την κατασκοπεία της κυβέρνησης των ΗΠΑ, στα data των πελατών τους προσπαθούν να διορθώσουν την φήμη τους. Ο Larry Page, ο επικεφαλής της Google, επιθυμώντας τη μεταρρύθμιση της νομοθεσίας για την better safety σε όλο τον κόσμο ανέφερε: "Καλούμε την κυβέρνηση των ΗΠΑ να ανοίξει το δρόμο."
So now eight companies, (Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, AOL) led by Google and Microsoft, presented a plan to regulate online spying and called on the United States to curb the actions of the NSA.
"Companies have a business and financial interest in protecting their users' privacy and should push aggressively for change," said Trevor Timm, an activist at Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The NSA has mass surveillance programs for one simple reason: its cooperation with the technology and telecommunications companies. If the technology companies no longer want that cooperation, they can force major reforms."
Very good her movement, but what we have mentioned several times at iGuRu.gr, is that the Secret Services will always be the Secret Services. The question is why didn't all these big tech companies react before the Snowden revelations?
The reaction came when public opinion was shaken and costs began to become financial. The utopia of reforms to curb NSA's spy operations will last until the next Snowden. Why Secret Service will continue to do their job, including the use of legitimate and unfair means to achieve their purpose.
As we have already seen in her case Lavabit, the US services extorted the company when it did not agree to cooperate with them.
Even if there are reforms, there will always be "under the table work."
