How #Silicon_Valley Helped the #NSA | By Abraham Newman | Foreign Affairs (06/11/2013)
▻http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140246/abraham-newman/privacy-pretense
Since the 1990s, companies from Google to Yahoo and Microsoft have done their best to ward off national #privacy rules, calling instead for self-regulation. Early attempts to pass privacy laws, such as the Online Privacy Protection Act in 2000, died thanks to #lobbying by the Direct Marketing Association and the Information Technology Association of America, which represent most of the country’s major information and communications technology firms. The firms have stood behind an older 1997 government framework, “Privacy and Self-Regulation in the Information Age,” which maintained that the best way to protect consumers was to let the technology market handle sensitive issues on its own.
Why Obama’s NSA Reforms Won’t Solve Silicon Valley’s Trust Problem | Threat Level | Wired.com (17/01/2014)
▻http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/obama-nsa-2
The president himself sent a zinger to the tech companies in his speech, implying that their hands were not exactly spotless: “The challenges to our privacy do not come from government alone,” he said. “Corporations of all shapes and sizes track what you buy, store and analyze our data, and use it for commercial purposes; that’s how those targeted ads pop up on your computer or smartphone.”
Maybe the president is sending a message to both the NSA and the Internet companies — a message that the tech industry doesn’t want to hear: We’re in this together.
Cf. ►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/10/SCHILLER/49729
