US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists

Post by voidlogic » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 3:31 PM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #26

voidlogic wrote: post #14

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Internal corporate collaborators unknown to the executives speaks to a failure of corporate security/infosec. I'd imagine current CEOs are increasing their organizations security measures to protect not only against corporate espionage but also state players. If you are CEO and you are forced to comply that is bad, but not nearly so bad as complying without knowing it is happening. Not knowing doesn't allow you to le…

How many CEOs view their interests as separate and opposed to their home-country security services? That's who protects them from terrorism, sabotage, blackmail, and kidnapping! A corporate infosec policy that keeps out everyone except a few quasi-official security-state moles may be exactly what they want. Earn brownie points, avoid paper trails, "everyone" wins. Probably, helping the security-state even makes keepi…

Post by mpyne » Fri, Mar 21, 2014, 5:05 AM UTC

Zigurd wrote: post #42

joshstrange wrote: post #20

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No, it appears this is only talking about the FISA court orders >> “All 702 collection is pursuant to court directives, so they have to know,” De reiterated to the Guardian. So, yes, companies knew they were being served with FISA warrants (that they complied with) but AFAICT they were unaware that the NSA was tapping their data lines like the example where they tapped data lines between Google's (and others) data ce…

> Section 702 is not the only legal authority the US government possesses to harvest data transiting the internet.