[Osmf-talk] Phasing out Google services

[martin wass]

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.

Martin Wass


On 2 November 2013 21:19, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>wrote:

>  David Drummond's, Google's chief legal officer, clarification in the
> following CNN article changed my opinion on using  Google services. Still
> and all, Google seems to be a private company which cares about its
> reputation and clients' privacy. And it demonstrates a constructive
> position on the situation.
>
> http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/30/us/nsa-google-yahoo/index.html
>
> Google has "*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*," said David Drummond, Google's chief
> legal officer.
>
> *"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."*
>
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