The website “Watching America” has translated an article I wrote for La Stampa, “Startup e spionaggio nell’era dei Big Data”.
Here’s the incipit:
Without in any way diminishing the value of the information provided by Snowden, we didn’t need his report to know that very tight bonds exist between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the American government.
The bond between intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley continues to grow stronger.
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed, via British newspaper The Guardian, the way in which American and British agencies secretly collect, in a very organized manner, all the information posted by the millions of users of social networks, search engines and the like, many people have begun to wonder about the extent of cooperation that exists between Silicon Valley and the various intelligence agencies. Following the denials from companies like Google and Facebook, in the vein of “We do not know anything about a program called PRISM,” there emerged cautious admissions and then more affirmations.
Read the entire article in English on the Watching America’s website.
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- Is the Web to Blame for Silicon Valley’s Close Ties to U.S. Intelligence Agencies? (socialtimes.com)
- big data (thejohnsmithblog.wordpress.com)
- Silicon Valley builds spy tools, is horrified when they’re used for spying (pandodaily.com)
