[VoiceOfRussia] We cannot trust closedown software and hardware to protect our freedoms

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“As concerns over the Internet security are at their highest, in an interview to Voice of Russia, Jeremie Zimmermann, founder and spokesperson for La Quadrature du Net, a citizen advocacy group defending fundamental freedoms online, talked about how tech companies handle personal data and how they cooperate with surveillance schemes.”

In response to a question on whether efforts by Tech companies to be more transparent about their data sharing habits, he said:

“This is crisis management communication [by Tech companies – Microsoft, Google, Facebook] mostly, because their customers are losing trust in their products. […]

The reality is that we cannot trust them anymore, because a whole bunch of US laws forces them into cooperating with mass surveillance and forces them in the way where they can never reveal the truth about it.”

http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_11_06/We-cannot-trust-closedown-software-and-hardware-to-protect-our-freedoms-expert-5982/