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I see that Google, Facebook, Microsoft et al are conspicuous by their absence from that list. Kind of shouts out how little they feel for your (and my) data pri
by SeanDav 13y ago
I see that Google, Facebook, Microsoft et al are conspicuous by their absence from that list. Kind of shouts out how little they feel for your (and my) data privacy.
- probably_wrong 13y agoWell, neither is YCombinator, while both Reddit and 4chan are. I agree they were probably contacted, but still I'd like to know, in any case, what was the procedure behind selecting those (and not other) companies.
- mtgx 13y agoIt would be pretty shocking if Microsoft continued the "Scroogle" charade after all of this. But you're right, I would've thought Google and the others would be the first to start a major lobbying campaign against NSA's surveillance powers. So maybe they don't really care about user privacy that much, or don't think this story will damage them too much in US or abroad, and that they don't really need to do anything to fix the broken trust relationship they have with their users now.
- youngerdryas 13y agoOr if Google continued their "Don't be evil" façade.
- doron 13y agoWell snooping on you to sell info to advertisers is a core business element. Bottom line - snooping is part and parcel of the business plan, they won't go against it, nor will they give it up.
- chm 13y agoEn effet, ces noms brillent par leur absence. But before jumping to conclusions, we'd have to be sure they were contacted for this? Maybe the authors of the letter assumed these companies wouldn't sign? It would be telling if they refused to participate.