Zuckerberg Voices Frustration Over 'Damage The Government Is Creating' With Surveillance

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

By BARBARA ORTUTAY | Associated Press | 23 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he has called President Barack Obama to express his frustration over what he says is long-lasting damage caused by the U.S. government's surveillance programs.

Posting on his Facebook page Thursday, Zuckerberg wrote that he's been "confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the U.S. government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government."

Though Zuckerberg does not name the National Security Agency, the post comes a day after the news site Intercept reported that the agency has impersonated a Facebook server to infect surveillance targets' computers and get files from a hard drive. The report is based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The NSA called the report "inaccurate."

"NSA uses its technical capabilities only to support lawful and appropriate foreign intelligence operations, all of which must be carried out in strict accordance with its authorities," the agency said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.newser.com/article/83f029fd79d149cb8e54586356d87097/zuckerberg-voices-frustration-over-damage-the-government-is-creating-with-surveillance.html

[okaawhatever]

1. Says the guy who is collecting data on every user for profit? A bit much coming from him. nt

[cosmicone]

4. Yes, but he has not done it behind any user's back.

Whatever he collects is in the TOS of Facebook and you have an option to not join facebook.

[denvine]

6. My thoughts exactly!

I'm certainly not defending government surveillance, but concerns coming from this guy is a joke.

[okaawhatever]

13. Yeah, attention anti-surveillance community. Having Zuckerburg as the poster boy to oppose

gov't surveillance is like having Charlie Sheen as the poster boy for clean living.

[Earth_First]

19. TOS and End User Agreements

You have the choice to participate or not.

Whereas free access to information without meta data points being collected are miles apart in their privacy infringements.

[frylock]

21. ever heard of Terms of Service?

you have now, several times over. I hope you hear it some more.

[okaawhatever]

22. So if the NSA gives us terms of service what they do is okay? I'm not saying what Facebook does is

illegal, nor am I saying what the NSA does is okay. But just because Facebook met their legal requirements by telling people they may collect their data, doesn't mean that what they've done is okay. Do you think if scotus rules that what the NSA has done is legal that it's okay? (and let's face it, with the current scotus they'll probably find for the NSA)

My comment is based on the fact that, in general, Facebook and Zuckerburg are not pro-privacy. There's no getting around that. Yes, they're meeting their legal requirements but that's not the same as being concerned about privacy. I also distrust the businesses who claim to support reforming the NSA legislatively when they make their profit off of data collection. I think their ultimate aim is to draft legislation that scales back the NSA but doesn't touch them. They don't want anyone coming in and writing laws that may affect all data collection and by extension, their profit.

[Pinkflamingo]

2. Yeah, that's a little like the pot calling the kettle black.....

don't you think Mark?

[frazzled]

3. Oh, that's rich!

From the guy who has made his fortune entirely out of ... collecting data on kazillions of people. He knows who your friends are.

[cosmicone]

5. See poat No. 4 n/t

[warrant46]

7. Who cares what this TWIT says about anything

Kind of like every time LOSER Palin opens her BIG PIE-HOLE and Bloviates CRAP

[Renew Deal]

8. Zuckerberg went out to say

"Abusing privacy is our game"

[okaawhatever]

14. Lolz. Good one. nt

[SoapBox]

9. The Baziollionaire hasn't much cred when it comes to the collection of data.

[arcane1]

11. The same guy who tried to route all the world's emails through his website, in secret?

Pot, meet kettle.

[Tx4obama]

12. Original AP article link below

Here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_ZUCKERBERG_OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-03-13-18-32-57

[Trajan]

15. I guess I should get used to NSA apologists overrunning DU

While Zuckerberg has some culpability on the private sector for over using his tools to capture personal information of FB users ... His sins do not give a PASS to the government to violate our rights as citizens ...

It's that a choir I hear? ... who left the fucking gate open? ...

[Catherina]

20. +1 Thank you Trajan. In this sea of shit responses, yours is one of the few reliefs. n/t

[marions ghost]

16. This calls for

But of course nothing will be done unless the Business Sector Objects.

[Blue_Tires]

17. That's what pisses me off the most...

because Snowden refuses to involve corporate culpability in the releases, they get to "play dumb" and deny everything...

[idendoit]

18. This is hilarious.

The worst offender of privacy rights complaining of government interference.

[penultimate]

23. Despite some of the irony, it is pretty messed up the lengths the NSA is going to in order to

collect information on citizens....if true, that is.