US Tech Companies Expected To Lose More Than $35 Billion Over NSA Spying

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 9, 2015 @12:55AM from the now-how-much-would-you-pay? dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes: Citing significant sales hits taken by big American firms like Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce, Qualcomm, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, a new report says losses by U.S. tech companies as a result of NSA spying and Snowden's whistleblowing "will likely far exceed" $35 billion. Previously, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation put the estimate lower when it predicted the losses would be felt mostly in the cloud industry. The consequences are being felt more widely and deeply than previously thought, however, so the number keeps rising.

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Re:Other industries by PopeRatzo · 2015-06-09 02:22 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Should be a great improvement for gun sales though.
How will a gun help you with NSA spying again? Are you planning on blowing your own brains out? Because that surely solves the problem. More than one problem, in fact.

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