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Marissa Mayer: 'It's Treason' For Yahoo To Disobey The NSA
Marissa Mayer was on stage on Wednesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference when Michael Arrington asked her about NSA snooping.
He wanted to know what would happen if Yahoo just didnt cooperate. He wanted to know what would happen if she were to simply talk about what was happening, even though the government had forbidden it.
Releasing classified information is treason. It generally lands you incarcerated, she said, clearly uncomfortable with the turn of the conversation.
She also explained that when the government comes calling wanting information on Yahoo users, the company scrutinizes each request and we push back a lot on requests. But we cant talk about those things because theyre classified, she said.
This has been going on long before her reign, too, she said:
Im proud to be part of an organisation that from the very beginning in 2007, with the NSA and FISA and PRISM, has been sceptical and has scrutinized those requests. In 2007 Yahoo filed a lawsuit against the new Patriot Act, parts of PRISM and FISA, we were the key plaintiff. A lot of people have wondered about that case and who it was. It was us we lost. The thing is, we lost and if you dont comply its treason.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/marissa-mayer-its-treason-to-ignore-the-nsa-2013-9
indepat
(20,899 posts)for our constitutional rights that are being eviscerated. Even a soldier at war is not required to follow an unlawful order.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)These business school CEOs only want to join the 1% - they don't even know what's in the fugging constitution-money, the good life, the latest of everything and some hypocritical religion to go along with the package - that's all they want.
indepat
(20,899 posts)emanate from TPTB.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)this is the same woman that made a room for her kid at yahoo, but cancelled work at home for working moms.
Orrex
(63,234 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)what treason is or what it takes to be convicted of treason. Who put her in charge of anything?
think4yourself
(839 posts)That was the worst response to give to this crowd.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)~George Orwell, 1984
- The object of power is power.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Not at all.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Disregarding the stupid-ass syntax, WTF does this mean? Does this mean Marissa Mayer has been given a clearance for classified information and gets briefed on it? Or does it mean that she got a scawwy letter that threatened her with a charge of treason if the company didn't comply? Both options fill me with despair.
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)That was my first reaction too. Doubtful the employees at Yahoo! have security clearance - so why are they subject to the same security treatment?
It would be like me giving you a document between me and a 3rd party that is marked "confidential." You have no obligation to maintain the confidences and if you decide to breach that confidence, it would be me - the party to the confidentiality agreement in the first place - that is subject to penalty.
I do feel confident in saying the gov't team has many attorneys that have twisted and contorted enough rules/regs (to the point a contortionist would be embarrassed) to "sweep everyone under the rules & penalties" - even if we don't know we're subject to those rules.
Think Dean Wormer and "Double Secret Probation." We're all on double secret probation... even if we don't know it.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)their Site...after being listed as giving away my Data....now has my Exact Location here in the USA for my Weather Report. They have My Street Name GIVING ME WEATHER!
This is NEW... Damned site thinks they can "Go for Broke" after NSA Spying Scandal to SPY ON ME MORE!
I'm not kidding about this. Marissa is so "under fire" for her new Position as CEO of YAHOO that's she's pulled out all PRIVACY STOPS for YAHOO that she's found a way to track me to my exact location, where I live and give me weather located to my Subdivision where I LIVE.
And no matter how I try to stop her link to my location...it keeps popping up!
It's like these Websites are so thrilled the NSA has revealed their SECRETS they are going for BROKE pushing EVEN MORE invasions of our Privacy to us!
I even delisted YAHOO as my Homepage on FIREFOX...and it keeps coming back along with my exact LOCATION for Weather Reports.
Whatever......what do we do and how do we all move forward with this TRACKING.
I have E-Mail with Yahoo for Amazon Purchases and a few Other Things...but, I'm ready to cancel it all.
Anyone else have this VERY RECENT problem with Yahoo and Marissa trying to RAMP SALES on backs of our Privacy?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)after being marched around in a dunce cap. The law is always used to do what the powers that are want to do. They define what is right and wrong according to their own purposes.
quakerboy
(13,921 posts)Next your going to tell me that my old Angelfire website is still out there somewhere.