Yahoo CEO Mayer: We Faced Jail If We Revealed NSA Surveillance Secrets -- The Guardian
Mark Zuckerberg joins Mayer in hitting back at critics of tech companies, saying US government did 'bad job' of balancing people's privacy and duty to protect
Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance. Mayer said executives faced jail if they revealed government secrets.
Yahoo and Facebook, along with other tech firms, are pushing for the right to be allowed to publish the number of requests they receive from the spy agency. Companies are forbidden by law to disclose how much data they provide.
During an interview at the Techcrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Mayer was asked why tech companies had not simply decided to tell the public more about what the US surveillance industry was up to. "Releasing classified information is treason and you are incarcerated," she said.
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Update #1: Marissa Mayer: 'It's Treason' For Yahoo To Disobey The NSA (YHOO) -- SFGate/Business Insider
Update #2: Yahoo CEO fears defying NSA could mean prison -- AFP
My Comment: It is clear that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is not happy with the NSA .... but she is not going to pull an "Edward Snowden".
