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Google’s Schmidt: Impact Of NSA Surveillance Is ‘Severe And Getting Worse’

Greg Otto | FedScoop | October 8, 2014

Some of Silicon Valley’s top leaders issued a stark warning to the federal government Wednesday: If the National Security Agency continues its surveillance practices to the point where it forces foreign nations to localize data, it will destroy the economic impact the tech sector has on the American economy...

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PRISM Could Put The Kibosh On US Trade Abroad

Richard Adhikari | E-Commerce Times | July 26, 2013

Europeans are not taking revelations about the U.S. government's PRISM surveillance program in stride, and that could be exceedingly bad for U.S. businesses. One sector that's already seeing cause for alarm is cloud services. Read More »

US Firms Worry Edward Snowden Is Wrecking Their Business, But The Patriot Act Was Already Doing That

Leo Mirani | Quartz | August 7, 2013

Shortly after a meeting of an EU-sponsored program to push European cloud-computing capabilities in Estonia last month, a high-ranking EC official noted that the biggest losers from Edward Snowden’s revelation about US surveillance would be US businesses: Read More »