I can believe it. Microsoft fired their chief privacy advisor (Caspar Bowden) in 2011 for saying “If you sell Microsoft cloud computing to your own governments

I can believe it. Microsoft fired their chief privacy advisor (Caspar Bowden) in 2011 for saying “If you sell Microsoft cloud computing to your own governments than this law (FISA) means that NSA can conduct unlimited mass surveillance on that data” to an internal meeting of regional managers.[0] He later tweeted that Brad Smith's "posturing as conscientious is nauseating cynicism"[1] about this very case. I miss Caspar, he was ahead of his time in recognising the dangers of cloud computing (especially in the US wrt FISA etc.). RIP :( [0] http://www.cloudwards.net/news/ex-microsoft-chief-privacy-officer-warns-about-cloud-surveillance-5868/ http://www.cloudwards.net/news/ex-microsoft-chief-privacy-of... [1] https://twitter.com/casparbowden/status/542588420611379201 https://twitter.com/casparbowden/status/542588420611379201