Friday, May 2, 2014

When They Feel the Heat, They See the Light; Technology Edition

About frigging time.
Silicon Valley tech giants have reportedly begun notifying users of data requests by government authorities under subpoena, despite requests by the government to retain a level of secrecy.

Reported by The Washington Post on Thursday, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have updated their policies to notify users of a data request unless a judge or other competent authority issues a gag order.

Electronically speaking, only Twitter and SonicNet have your back. But tne report for 2014 is due out soon and the other tech companies are beginning to realize that it matters.

Part of the Snowden Effect. He outed those rat bastards as being little more than a bunch of willing informers. But it seems that people don't care for that very much. As they could have learned from Eastern Europe, nobody likes a stukach.
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1 comment:

  1. Old NFO5/03/2014 3:21 PM

    That he did, and raised the 'accountability' level considerably... :-)

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