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Why on earth do you call out Skype? That's true of tons of services.
Skype was another one of the services mentioned. Microsoft was also the first company to start giving data this way to NSA, according to the leak, since 2007, and they signed up Skype to it almost immediately after they bought it.
I am kind of surprised how many people on HN try to downplay the PRISM thing. The recent revelations and controversy directly affect the business prospects of any US firm that stores data. A couple of months ago I was on an education business fair in Germany and the first thing I heared at the booth of many data-handling businesses was: "We don't store anything in the United States. All our servers are in Europe/Germ…
That, exactly. Google, Apple, Facebook and friends go to great lengths to evade taxes. When it comes to tax matters, those companies have no hesitation to use all the tricks available to a trans-national company. And they pay very smart people to invent schemes that ensure a maximum amount of money is kept out of the US IRS hands. If Google, Facebook and friends were truly serious about protecting their users' privac…
Yep, Facebook has the same thing, which was also pitched as altruistic. https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=116481065103985
[1] https://developers.google.com/google-apps/email-audit/
I am kind of surprised how many people on HN try to downplay the PRISM thing. The recent revelations and controversy directly affect the business prospects of any US firm that stores data. A couple of months ago I was on an education business fair in Germany and the first thing I heared at the booth of many data-handling businesses was: "We don't store anything in the United States. All our servers are in Europe/Germ…
It's simple: if it's passed through the USA, if you store it on a server in the USA or if it contains tags served from the USA you can bet that it's being tracked by one or more three letter agencies. To assume anything less would be folly given the amount of smoke that has been generated to date. To infer there is a fire somewhere is no feat of deduction.
The fact that there is now proof that at least some of these programs are real is only going to convince the last hold-outs, or at least, so I'd hope.
I am kind of surprised how many people on HN try to downplay the PRISM thing. The recent revelations and controversy directly affect the business prospects of any US firm that stores data. A couple of months ago I was on an education business fair in Germany and the first thing I heared at the booth of many data-handling businesses was: "We don't store anything in the United States. All our servers are in Europe/Germ…
That, exactly. Google, Apple, Facebook and friends go to great lengths to evade taxes. When it comes to tax matters, those companies have no hesitation to use all the tricks available to a trans-national company. And they pay very smart people to invent schemes that ensure a maximum amount of money is kept out of the US IRS hands. If Google, Facebook and friends were truly serious about protecting their users' privac…
This post hurts Americans, for one person to build a picocelebrity career out of smearing a famous ex-employer