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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: 2, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Friday June 12 2015, @01:16PM
Actually I'm *NOT* against secret legislation: because it can be so clearly argued that, since every citizen is supposed to know the law, a secret law is simply something that doesn't exist in a state of law, and can thus be safely ignored.
Poof..
If you ever use that logic to prove that black is white, avoid zebra crossings.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.