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posted by janrinok on Friday June 12 2015, @04:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the they-would-say-that-wouldn't-they? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday June 12 2015, @01:42PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday June 12 2015, @01:42PM (#195388) Journal

    Yeah, someone is running the world, but it's not government. I just haven't found which conspiracy theory fits all the facts.

    A brute force approach would be to vaporize the Bilderberg meeting and everyone in it. If the crimes stop, then we got the right guys. If not, we vaporize Westchester County and the Hamptons. If the crimes stop, then we got the right guys.

    We are in the Information Age, so the tools for more discerning approaches are available. One sysadmin in the right place can do a great deal. Look at the incredible blow for freedom one called Snowden has struck. American citizens don't have the Big Iron to crunch every communication from everyone all the time that the criminals in the NSA do, but they don't need to. The list of suspects is short. It's where the numerical imbalance between the 99% and the 1% really works in the favor of the citizenry: there are a whole lot more of them than there are the criminals. That is, it is much easier for 350 million Americans to meaningfully watch 100,000 criminals than for 100,000 criminals to meaningfully watch 350 million Americans. The way the government has reacted to the Snowden revelations and the Wikileaks release before that shows they are quite vulnerable to being exposed, and that that approach Wikileaks and Snowden have done the trailbreaking on could be enough to bring the criminal gang in DC to justice.

    There are of course other, simpler ways of figuring out who's running the world, and who isn't. It's probably not the divorced woman living in a trailer in West Virginia with 7 kids who don't have shoes. It's also probably not the stressed out guy taking your order at McDonald's. The guy who lives in a gated community on the North Shore of Long Island? Pretty good chance.

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