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Tim Cook and Other Tech Executives to Meet With President Obama to Discuss NSA Surveillance and Health Care Website
Tim Cook and other tech executives will meet with President Obama tomorrow to discuss the Healthcare.gov website, as well as "national security and the economic impacts of unauthorized intelligence disclosures". In addition, the group will discuss ways the Obama administration can partner with the tech sector to grow the economy and create new jobs.
According to a report from Time:
According to the report, the following executives will attend:
- Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
- Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
- Chad Dickerson, CEO, Etsy
- Reed Hastings, Co-Founder & CEO, Netflix
- Drew Houston, Founder & CEO, Dropbox
- Marissa Mayer, President and CEO, Yahoo!
- Burke Norton, Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce
- Mark Pincus, Founder, Chief Product Officer & Chairman, Zynga
- Shervin Pishevar, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Sherpa Global
- Brian Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast
- Erika Rottenberg, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, LinkedIn
- Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
- Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft
- Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO, AT&T
Earlier this month, Apple, Google and a number of other tech companies urged the President and Congress to reform government surveillance tactics.
Concerns about government use of user data collecting ramped up in June, when a U.S. government program named PRISM was revealed to be giving the U.S. National Security Agency direct access to user data on corporate servers across a wide spectrum of Internet companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.
In response, Apple published a statement of "Commitment to Customer Privacy" denying its participation in the NSA's program and teamed up with a number of tech companies to request greater NSA surveillance transparency, allowing it to provide customers with regular reports on security related requests. Last month, Apple published a report outlining statistics on government and law enforcement requests it received from January to the end of June.
Apple and other companies also met with President Obama in August to discuss privacy issues and government surveillance. Recently, Apple and 30 other technology corporations signed a letter urging the U.S. Congress to pass the Surveillance Order Reporting Act of 2013 and the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013, which would result in increased surveillance disclosures and would give technology companies the right to publish detailed statistics on demands for user data.
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According to a report from Time:
“Tomorrow, President Obama will meet with executives from leading tech companies to discuss progress made in addressing performance and capacity issues with HealthCare.Gov and how government can better deliver IT to maximize innovation, efficiency and customer service,” a White House official said. “The meeting will also address national security and the economic impacts of unauthorized intelligence disclosures. Finally, the President will discuss ways his Administration can partner with the tech sector to further grow the economy, create jobs and address issues around income inequality and social mobility.”
According to the report, the following executives will attend:
- Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
- Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
- Chad Dickerson, CEO, Etsy
- Reed Hastings, Co-Founder & CEO, Netflix
- Drew Houston, Founder & CEO, Dropbox
- Marissa Mayer, President and CEO, Yahoo!
- Burke Norton, Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce
- Mark Pincus, Founder, Chief Product Officer & Chairman, Zynga
- Shervin Pishevar, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Sherpa Global
- Brian Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast
- Erika Rottenberg, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, LinkedIn
- Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
- Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft
- Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO, AT&T
Earlier this month, Apple, Google and a number of other tech companies urged the President and Congress to reform government surveillance tactics.
Concerns about government use of user data collecting ramped up in June, when a U.S. government program named PRISM was revealed to be giving the U.S. National Security Agency direct access to user data on corporate servers across a wide spectrum of Internet companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.
In response, Apple published a statement of "Commitment to Customer Privacy" denying its participation in the NSA's program and teamed up with a number of tech companies to request greater NSA surveillance transparency, allowing it to provide customers with regular reports on security related requests. Last month, Apple published a report outlining statistics on government and law enforcement requests it received from January to the end of June.
Apple and other companies also met with President Obama in August to discuss privacy issues and government surveillance. Recently, Apple and 30 other technology corporations signed a letter urging the U.S. Congress to pass the Surveillance Order Reporting Act of 2013 and the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013, which would result in increased surveillance disclosures and would give technology companies the right to publish detailed statistics on demands for user data.
Note: Due to the political nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the comment thread is located in our Politics, Religion, Social Issues forum. All MacRumors forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.
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72 months ago
Facebook will be there?
Yeah... They are definitely qualified to voice their opinion on privacy concerns.
Yeah... They are definitely qualified to voice their opinion on privacy concerns.
72 months ago
After watching 60 Minutes yesterday, I actually feel a little better about the whole NSA/Prism situation.
Really? I thought CBS did a great job of ball washing the NSA. Might as well have been produced by the PR team of the NSA.
72 months ago
After watching 60 Minutes yesterday, I actually feel a little better about the whole NSA/Prism situation.
Please don't tell me you fell for the propaganda on last night's episode? :o
72 months ago
After watching 60 Minutes yesterday, I actually feel a little better about the whole NSA/Prism situation.
You feel better after watching a program from an untrustworthy news source where they interview pathological liars? How...naive.This just in, the NSA Spying program has been found to be unconstitutional.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25410064
The judge called called the NSA's surveillance programe "indiscriminate" and an "almost Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States".
Not that they will stop doing it or anything.
72 months ago
Transparency
These talks should be transparent to the public and not behind closed doors. How do we really know what they are talking about?
These talks should be transparent to the public and not behind closed doors. How do we really know what they are talking about?
72 months ago
All CEOs: "Obama, please get rid of the NSA."
Obama: "Now wait a minute here. I'll change stuff."
Repeat every 6 months.
Obama: "Now wait a minute here. I'll change stuff."
Repeat every 6 months.
72 months ago
Tim Cook and other tech executives will meet with President Obama tomorrow to discuss [] "national security and the economic impacts of unauthorized intelligence disclosures".
Excuse me, but unauthorized intelligence disclosures are not the problem. ********** governments spying on people, that's the problem.
Here in the UK the problem seems to be that harmless appearing politicians, especially female ones, seem to turn into surveillance nazis as soon as they come to power. Jaqui "jackboots" Smith first (that's the one whose husband let British taxpayers pay for his porn), good riddance to her, but as soon as we got rid of her, Theresa May follows right in her footsteps. Running out of alternatives.
72 months ago
After watching 60 Minutes yesterday, I actually feel a little better about the whole NSA/Prism situation.
With proper oversight and accountability, we need to allow the government certain tools to protect us, or another 9/11, or much worse, could be here sooner rather than later.
I said this before, shortly after 9/11, and with the Patriot Act during Bush's Administration, and I'll say it again:
A wise man once said (and I'll paraphrase):
Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither freedom, nor security.
We lost those during the "War on Terror" with warrantless wiretapping and the Patriot Act, and we lost them here, up until Judge Leon ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of data violates the 4th Amendment.
But instead, I'll ask this: Are you really willing to give up your freedoms for the perceived safety you'll get from a 9/11-type event that may never happen?
BL.
72 months ago
After watching 60 Minutes yesterday, I actually feel a little better about the whole NSA/Prism situation.
With proper oversight and accountability, we need to allow the government certain tools to protect us, or another 9/11, or much worse, could be here sooner rather than later.
Don't be fooled. http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/12/15/5214452/60-minutes-softball-NSA-expose
The war on terror has already killed millions more people than terrorism, and the massive invasions of privacy are similarly completely out of scale.
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