I am attending the President’s address this morning regarding the future of NSA surveillance.
The tech industry has been deeply troubled by revelations of expansive government surveillance. NSA attempts to disable security measures protecting the communications infrastructure of American companies is a threat to our consumers in the U.S. and abroad. International response to these actions puts our access to global markets at risk.
The nation’s law enforcement and intelligence services should implement transparency measures and come clean with citizens around the world about the requests it makes of American tech companies. The next five years of innovation in the mobile marketplace will require significantly greater consumer trust than the last five years. Our future depends on consumer confidence in cloud services.”
The U.S. tech industry cares deeply for the safety of our country, but our government must not compromise the integrity of our core services to conduct surveillance.