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Comments on: Some People Have Integrity https://whynow.dumka.us/2013/08/09/some-people-have-integrity/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2013/08/09/some-people-have-integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-65056 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:23:39 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=30394#comment-65056 In reply to Kryten42.

The reality is that if these were targeted requests none of this would be necessary on the part of the ‘Big Guys’, but given that they are permitting the hoovering of their data, people don’t trust them. Yahoo and Twitter raised as much hell as possible, but the ‘Big Guys’ just went along. The damage has been done and no matter what kind of deal that could get worked out, other than real external oversight after the programs come under compliance with the Constitutional protections, no one is going to trust them ever again.

If they want to show some ‘good will’ they could get together and donate a billion dollars of their excess profits to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union and stop spending money for lobbyists for tax breaks and slave labor from overseas.

I never trusted any of them, so this certainly won’t effect my view.

]]> By: Kryten42 https://whynow.dumka.us/2013/08/09/some-people-have-integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-65055 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:08:05 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=30394#comment-65055 There’s an interesting take on this here (and other sources). Seems some of the BIG players are worried about the impact (on their profits I’m sure). 😉

Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft Form Alliance To Petition Whitehouse and Congress on NSA Surveillance

Of course, if I were at all cynical… ahem… It could just be that they want to be seen to at least be trying to do the *right* thing, so that can say “Well, we tried! It’s not our fault!” 😉 I mean… If I were at all cynical. Or if I knew what these companies are really like. Oh wait, I do! 😆

Oh, notice that they aren’t asking for the Gov to *stop* it, just so they can disclose the requests for info under FISA.

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