Technology companies boost security to thwart spying

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Technology companies boost security to thwart spying

A year after Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs, the major U.S. technology companies suffering from the fallout are uniting to shore up their defenses against government intrusion.

 

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What's the point, when they're so willing to hawk our personal data to all and sundry?

What's the point, when the ultimate plan is for Total Convergence and Transparency anyway?

What's the point, since these companies will eventually be represented by 3 ultra-wealthy, anonymous elites, their workforce fully roboticized and automated after massive job cuts, and the "private" data they're so desperate to "defend" is no longer that of a constructive citizenry, and rather that of a herd of branded cattle? Unless of course, this "shoring up of defenses" is simply that of the CEO's laptop...