Tech companies face criminal charges if they notify users of UK government spying
http://www.techspot.com/news/63292-tech-companies-face-criminal-charges-if-they-notify.html Last week, it was reported that Yahoo had become the latest company that promised to alert users who it suspected were being spied on by state-sponsored actors. Twitter, Facebook and Google had previously assured their users that they would also warn them of any potential government spying. The UK, it seems, isn't happy about this, and is pushing through a bill that will see the bosses of any company that warns its members that British agencies are monitoring them face [sic] up to two years in prison. - - - First, ban end to end crypto without backdoors. Then, ban notifying users about government spying on their data. I still marvel at the folks who seriously thought that governments' reaction to Snowden would be serious reforms. In fact, they've massively retrenched into more surveillance than ever, just as many of us predicted. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
