New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-U.S. Clause

Re:New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-D... by codex on Friday December 27, 2013 @01:26AM (#6969616)

It's a bit laughable to presume that the NSA would be interested in a random company's laundry, or would divulge it to anyone else. Snowden's leaks do not contain any evidence of this, and yet it is well known that the Chinese, in fact, do spy for corporate gain.

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Re:New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-D... by salient on Friday December 27, 2013 @03:06AM (#6969867)

Maybe you just aren't paying attention:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101291247

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/nsa-busted-conducting...

There are a lot of things that we thought it would be "outrageous" for NSA to do, and yet we found out later they're doing them. If anything, NSA is more interested in spying on corporations for the purpose of economic espionage than anything else. Why else would Germany be spied upon by the NSA as much as China is?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/30/4481670/nsa-spying-in-germ...

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Re:New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-D... by rgj on Friday December 27, 2013 @02:17AM (#6969747)

There is not much evidence of commercial espionage indeed. But it's not about company's laundry. It's about the laundry of the users, stored by the company. If NSA access to that hits the press, a EU company will lose a lot of customers.

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Re:New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-D... by perlpimp on Friday December 27, 2013 @02:25AM (#6969766)

just because it was not aired particularly what kind of economic espionage was happening - it does not mean that it is not happening.

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