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Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet"

Posted by samzenpus on from the this-is-why-we-can't-have-nice-things dept.

jfruh writes Oregon Senator Ron Wyden gathered a group of tech luminaries to discuss the implications of U.S. surveillance programs, and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt didn't mince words. He said that worries over U.S. surveillance would result in servers with different sets of data for users from different countries multiplying across the world. "The simplest outcome is that we're going to end up breaking the Internet."

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  1. Very easy to solve by Karmashock · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Restore the prohibitions against spying and require real warrants to engage. No more dragnets.

    Things are just going to keep getting worse until it happens.

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  2. Background article by return+42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you have time to read 12,000 words, the New Yorker ran an excellent article last year detailing US surveillance programs and Senator Wyden's efforts to rein them in.

    "State of Deception"