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Re: [LUG] OT: State and corporate surveillance and privacy

 

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 01:28:35PM +0000, Philip Hudson wrote:
> Five IT giants make their first ever joint political statement against
> (sort-of) surveillance. By the state. Not by them.

Actually, there were eight of them - Microsoft was one of the signatories too:

http://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-demand-changes-to-spying-2013-12

As for the federal judge ruling bulk metadata collection unconstitutional, a 
collegue of his disagrees:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/judge-upholds-nsa-spying/

Perhaps among the many secret programs the NSA has, there is one called 
'SCHRODINGER'?

In any case, let's not forget that 2013 was a great year for privacy.

Martijn.


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