“The relationship between the intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley has historically been very cozy. The former head of Facebook security now works at NSA. Dropbox just added Condoleeza Rice, an architect of the Iraq war, to its board of directors. Obama has private fundraisers with the same people who are supposed to champion our privacy. There is not a lot of daylight between the American political Establishment and the Internet establishment. Whatever their politics, these people are on the same team.”
That’s taken from a talk Maciej Cegłowski gave May 20 in Düsseldorf, Germany. I’m not smart enough to know what it all means, but it doesn’t sound pleasant. Read the rest here.
