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The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has released a report claiming that U.S. tech companies have lost $35 billion in sales as a result of "failure of U.S. policymakers to address surveillance concerns" after the release of the first Snowden documents in 2013.
ITIF recommends that policymakers:
* Increase transparency about U.S. surveillance activities both at home and abroad.
* Strengthen information security by opposing any government efforts to introduce backdoors in software or weaken encryption.
* Strengthen U.S. mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs).
* Work to establish international legal standards for government access to data.
* Complete trade agreements like the Trans Pacific Partnership that ban digital protectionism, and pressure nations that seek to erect protectionist barriers to abandon those efforts.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @05:12AM
or
To be quickly reposed as:
or
The same information with varying intensity and intended interpretation.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Fluffeh on Friday June 12 2015, @05:47AM
I think it's more like this:
Truth:
NSA eavesdropping isn't liked by the rest of the world, nor by most Americans and as cost the tech industry $35 billion when the rest of the world found out.
Translated by Politicians to:
Snowden cost the US $35 billion! Burn the witch!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:27AM
Nah, the point is it could be said in an impressive number of ways that have different assumptions, implications, biases, and intents. All of them are equally the truth, and if done well all of them are facts too.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Friday June 12 2015, @07:25PM
Snowden cost the US $35 billion! Burn the witch!!
that's ridiculous. he's a dude, so what you meant to write was,
Snowden cost the US $35 billion! Burn the warlock!!
so how that makes more sense? :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @09:03AM
A better one would be:
False advertising made US tech companies billions. Until the truth came out.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:47AM
Also: Countless firms have saved $35 billions by not putting it into trojaned software, and potentially save much more than that by not having their data compromised.
It's no secret that intelligence is not gathered for military/political purposes only, but to let your country firms compete/steal/outbid the others.
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