Tech executives are worried that the fallout of surveillance revelations could be severe, and all of them are critical of the NSA. Joining Schmidt were Microsoft Executive Vice President Brad Smith, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, Dropbox General Counsel Ramsey Homsany and John Lilly, a venture capitalist with Greylock Partners. That's one of the reasons we need Congress to act." "Even if when you put your content on our data centers, you still own it, and you're entitled to the legal protections from the Constitution. "You own the email or text messages or content you create," said Schmidt. Any wholesale surveillance, they insist, was done without their help or knowledge. Tech companies say they only respond to legal demands for user data. tech giants were complicit in handing users' information to the government, an accusation that the executives deny. They fear that the data they provide may not be safe from intelligence agencies. Revelations about the surveillance have tarnished the reputations of many Silicon Valley companies. government that their global competitiveness is being "walled" because users mistrust them. "Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should do it," said Schmidt criticizing NSA's surveillance.Īmerican tech companies have long cautioned the U.S. But it was not until Snowden's revelations that confirmed their widespread monitoring programs, catching worldwide attention. And internet companies are taking this concerns seriously.įor years, the NSA was engaged in questionable surveillance practices. They have wondered whether these companies would allow government officials to take a peek into their privacy. Post-Snowden era, people are becoming more worried about their personal data that are trusted to internet companies.
"The impact … is severe and getting worse." And the cost of that is huge," said Schmidt.
"We don't want these NSA and other people in it. And this fact has caught the eyes of the government. This has proven that the internet holds a lot of information about people, both that are visible and hidden. As more and more people around the globe uses the internet on a daily basis, they will share more about themselves whether they like it or not.
The internet has gotten deep inside the lives of people. Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt who feels internet freedom is vital to innovation, describes all of Google's successes and failures, falls into one motto: Don't be Evil. The search giant Google has created technologies that changed many things from the way we communicate, how we use the internet, to how we embrace mobile devices.
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