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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) by wantkitteh on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:20AM
I ditched my Gmail accounts when all the techcorp collaboration came to light. Instead I purchased a domain name I liked and started giving actually real money to a privacy-focused hosted email provider instead. I know how much I now pay annually for a service that's completely transparent - I would seriously love to know how much money Google made from me every year.