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...In 2013, the former contractor for the American National Security Agency provoked an international outcry by revealing the extent of US government surveillance in cyberspace....
...Rules on transatlantic data transfers were once an arcane matter but have become a political cause célèbre in Europe after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden accused the US of mass online surveillance...
...of Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor turned whistleblower....
...Chinese commentators say Google is among the US tech companies that helped the NSA in its efforts to spy on users....
...Skyhigh Networks, a cloud security start-up, has raised funding from Salesforce.com and venture capitalists, as companies worry that employee use of cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive could...
...The NSA scandal crystallised wider anxieties about the spreading power of a handful of US companies that dominate the tech industry....
...Eric Schmidt, Google chairman, is among those warning that the steady erosion of online freedoms will end badly. “You can end up in a situation where you break the internet,” he says....
...Data-rich servers have proved attractive to cyber thieves and were a source of the data governments have been collecting, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor....
...Industry heavyweights such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft, named in leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last year, have protested vehemently against the mass surveillance....
...“Snowden took all this information out of the NSA systems and now has publicised it. If they don’t necessarily have the best controls, who can?...
...Before the NSA revelations, the industry’s most fervent lobbying was for immigration reform....
...In public, Mr Obama has shifted his position remarkably little in face of the torrent of often embarrassing revelations since Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor, fled into exile in June, leaving a...
...The claims, which included the accusation that Yahoo had also been targeted in the network break-in, were the latest to be based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden....
...A recent revelation that the NSA had hacked into the networks of Google and Yahoo to spy on unencrypted data flows outraged the internet community and helped companies overcome their differences about whether...
...Following revelations made by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor, EU companies and consumers have become concerned about the way US tech groups such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft share their data...
...The report in The Washington Post, which was based on documents provided by Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor, said the US and UK governments had found a way to intercept communications as they were...
...The move echoes a similar strategy Google pursued in June....
...The collapse of the negotiations marks a setback for some of the largest US internet companies as they seek to stem the damage caused by the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the...
...Brussels has been under growing pressure to bolster privacy rules ever since Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor, revealed that the US was snooping the emails and phone calls of European citizens and...
...“Prism has been a wake-up call,” Ms Reding said on Friday, referring to one of the NSA programmes revealed by Mr Snowden, a former NSA contractor. “The data protection reform is Europe’s answer.”...
...contractor Edward Snowden....
...It was notably absent from the list of Silicon Valley companies mentioned in the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency contractor, about the NSA’s Prism surveillance...
...But disclosures by the US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden have put the UK government on the defensive within the EU....
...His comments came as European politicians continued to raise concerns about the disclosure, first reported this month in the Guardian and The Washington Post, that the NSA was working with Google, Microsoft...
...The National Security Agency programme, codenamed PRISM, boasted of collection “directly from the servers of these U.S....
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