MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Spencer Ackerman in Washington, the guardian.com, 5 Nov., 2013
Apple has jumped into the thick of the legal fight over transparency surrounding technology giants’ sharing of customer data with the National Security Agency.
In a surprisingly caustic filing to the secretive court overseeing government surveillance, Apple argued that the US government ought to lift the gag order preventing it from informing customers about even basic information concerning data-sharing with the NSA and other agencies.
Apple joined Yahoo, Microsoft, LinkedIn and other tech firms in arguing for greater leeway to explain its co-operation with the US intelligence community just as it released its first-ever report on how it complies with data requests from world governments [....]
My comment: contrary to the opinion of some in the blogosphere, seems to me like the "ruling plutocracy" can't always get what it wants.
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Apple is the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated value of US$415 billion as of March 2013
--Wikipedia
by artappraiser on Wed, 11/06/2013 - 5:56pm