About The not-so-secret alliance between tech giants and spy agencies | America's Surveillance State (4/6)
There is often an invisible but powerful connection between high-tech government intelligence services and the corporate world, along with deep tensions between companies, their customers, and the government. This connection operates on many levels. This episode examines the relationship between spy agencies and technology companies. Can their cooperation be considered complicity in spying? Does it violate the trust of customers? As the internet grew to hundreds of millions of users, agencies like the NSA quickly saw it as an opportunity. What began as a tool for global communication became an instrument of mass surveillance, forming part of a surveillance-industrial complex. The NSA took to the internet like a fish to water. Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that the NSA is openly proud of its partnerships with corporations. Deals were struck in which companies provided data in exchange for intelligence on threats to their operations. This relationship is further documented in journalist Glenn Greenwald’s book No Place to Hide. But this cooperation undermines customer trust. Privacy agreements, often written by teams of lawyers, are designed to conceal or sanitize their
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- The not-so-secret alliance between tech giants and spy agencies | America's Surveillance State (4/6)
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- Mystery
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- 25 minutes
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