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by wingless 3489 days ago
Like how the PRISM program got whistleblown by Googlers? Oh wait, that never happened.
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rocqua 3489 days ago
Threat of jail / treason conviction is a lot stronger than the threat of being fired by google.

I can totally see someone caving for the one and not the other.

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kyrra 3488 days ago
Google never cooperated with PRISM. As soon as news came out that the NSA was tapping Google's intra-datacenter dedicated lines, Google announced they would accelerate encrypting all that traffic.

https://www.google.com/amp/arstechnica.com/information-techn...

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