<div dir="ltr"><div>The essential problem is that US-based organisations cannot be believed as US law compels them to lie about such matters. Hence why Lavabit and other ethical companies have chosen to go out of business rather than comply.<br>
<br></div>Martin Wass<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 November 2013 21:19, Oleksiy Muzalyev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>David Drummond's,
Google's chief legal officer, clarification in the following CNN
article changed my opinion on usingĀ Google services. <span>Still and all, </span>Google seems to be a
private company which cares about its reputation and clients'
privacy. And it demonstrates a constructive position on the
situation.<br>
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<p><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/30/us/nsa-google-yahoo/index.html" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/30/us/nsa-google-yahoo/index.html</a><br>
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<p>Google has "<i>long
been concerned about the possibility of this kind of snooping,
which is why we have continued to extend encryption across more
and more Google services and links</i>," said David Drummond,
Google's chief legal officer.</p>
<p><i>"We do not
provide any government, including the U.S. government, with
access to our systems. We are outraged at the lengths to which
the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our
private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent
reform."</i></p>
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