the post snowden world one year later: what has changed?
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Increased awareness about government surveillance practices has changed the way society understands privacy, values and due process of the law, leaving individuals and businesses unsure about who has access to their private information. The trust of our customers is the currency upon which the Internet economy is built. It's foundation, the Internet infrastructure industry, must collaborate with others who have a stake in its success to show the world that the United States takes privacy seriously. We are already seeing an international backlash to the activities of the NSA as individual countries and regions seek to implement policies that will fragment the Internet into localized networks. This would discount all the principles that have led to our industry's massive success. Now more than ever, we must work together to ensure that significant reforms are made to maintain the open and free nature of the Internet as we know it.TRANSCRIPT
THE POST SNOWDEN WORLD ONE YEAR LATER: WHAT HAS CHANGED?TechWeek - ChicagoJune 28, 2014
Christian DawsonCo-Founder and Board Chair, Internet Infrastructure Coalition
What we SHOULDN’T be talking about
Snowden Revelations
NSA – What have we learned?• The scope of PRISM related data gathering• Lack of oversight of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court• Scope of phone call surveillance• Shockingly massive collection of metadata• Specific targeting of U.S. citizens
…and much more
What else have we learned?
Relationship with customer privacy
Government surveillanceEncompasses:
• Metadata• Email• Phone calls• All digital correspondence
Why is it wrong these types of surveillance are happening?
Change comes from forward-thinking
Actual suppression of ideas
Chilling effect
Does this make us safer?
Does this make us safer?
Does this make us safer?
Economic arguments
Losing the Cloud
“Revelations of NSA Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies”
The United States Cloud computing industry could lose $35 billion by 2016.Information Technology and Innovation
Foundation
The losses could be as high as $180 billion, or 25 percent of industry revenue.
Forrester Research
New York Times 3/21/14
“NSA Snooping’s Negative Impact on Business Would Have the Founding Fathers Aghast”
“…the fallout from Snowden’s leaks will have “’multi-billion Euro consequences’” for US businesses.”
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital
Affairs
Forbes 12/20/13
U.S. based companies losing contracts
Are we safer?We are losing the entrepreneurial race to the rest of the world over this issue.
• A bad economy doesn’t make us safer. • Fewer jobs doesn’t make us safer. • A loss of economic opportunity and sending jobs overseas doesn’t make us safer.
Gutting the USA Freedom Act
The Era of “Just Trust Us”is long gone
The actions of the NSA are demonstrably:
• Weakening encryption standards and empowering hackers • Losing the faith of U.S.allies• Curbing growth of the U.S. based Cloud as Europe reaps reward• Undermining the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution• Suppressing forward-thinking• Harming the U.S. economic interests in its most successful
economic sector• Starting us on a path of escalated costs and spiraling taxpayer
burden
Moving Past Snowden
Contact your representatives in DC
Make it a campaign issue
Make this YOUR issue
We must fight for real NSA reform
Real NSA reform:
•Good for the economy•Good for the rule of law and the safety of those who live under the law
•Good for the tech industry
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