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From a company point of view, supporting CISA might well make sense in order to avoid the legal problems they are bound to have due to being coerced to cooperat
by dmichulke 11y ago
From a company point of view, supporting CISA might well make sense in order to avoid the legal problems they are bound to have due to being coerced to cooperate with the government.
From a consumer point of view, it also makes sense to avoid "officially tapped" (read "US") services.
In the long run, it looks to me that gov't is laying the foundation of the demise of its own surveillance program because no one in his right mind would want his data in the US anymore, even less so if you're not an American company. Except for the German government, of course.
- greatthanks 11y ago> Except for the German government, of course. What do you mean?
- dmichulke 11y agoThey don't care whether Germans' phone calls are tapped, the chancellor's phone is tapped or German companies are subject to industrial espionage. Each of the above provably happened and the responses were (in descending order of their "strength"): - the chancellor cancelling the phone contract with Verizon - asking the US for an apology (didn't happen) - asking the US to sign a no-spy treaty (which would be purely trust-based - no control possible and still the US refuses to sign it) -- end of list -- Note the absence of lawsuits, demissions / resignations and "diplomatic tensions".
- glitchdout 11y agoDon't forget - Not caring that its intelligence agencies are selling their own citizens metadata (and content) http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-08/xkeyscore-nsa-domestic-intelligence-agency http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-08/xkeyscore-nsa... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/germany-hands-over-citizens-metadata-in-return-for-nsas-top-spy-software/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/germany-hands-ove... This has not been proven (yet).