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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 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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