US Tech Companies and NSA Surveillance
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The NSA's surveillance capacity is so vast it's scaring foreign clients away from the US technology industry. We look at the conflicts and economic consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.9 | NSA surveillance, bad for business, and personal privacy. |
| 0:14.9 | Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, |
| 0:18.8 | a daily look at the issues Americans cut about most. Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and other American tech giants are complaining to President |
| 0:25.3 | Obama about threats to their bottom lines. Foreign clients, including governments, fear they're |
| 0:29.9 | being spied on by the NSA. That's costing the industry hundreds of billions of dollars. Now the NSA's |
| 0:35.5 | revealed that U.S. companies knew what was happening, |
| 0:38.0 | even when they denied it. It takes draconian steps for individual Americans to protect their |
| 0:43.1 | privacy, is the value of NSA's intelligence gathering worth the economic and personal cost. |
| 0:49.6 | Today's talking point in Egypt, one killing leads to 529 death sentences. First, here's the news. |
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| 1:13.1 | KCRW. Support for To The Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio |
| 1:20.3 | International Program Fund. Hello again, Warren. I'll knee back with To the Point. The NSA's |
| 1:24.7 | surveillance capacity is so vast at scaring foreign clients away from America's |
| 1:29.6 | technology industry. We'll hear what that means for the economy and what it takes for an |
| 1:33.9 | individual American to put blinders on government, private companies, and potential criminals. |
| 1:39.5 | Today's talking point in Egypt, more people have been sentenced to death than a single day |
| 1:43.6 | than over the course of any previous decades. Lawyers call it a sham. Rights groups call it a dangerous precedent. We'll hear more about that. First is news update. President Obama is in the Netherlands for a planned 52-member summit on nuclear security and an unplanned meeting of the G7 industrialized |
| 2:03.2 | countries to deal with a more pressing subject. |
| 2:05.6 | Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people. |
| 2:13.5 | We're united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far. |
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