Twitter Employees React To PRISM, the NSA's Surveillance Program
The Washington Post reported tonight that the NSA & the FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs." Noticeably absent from the list was Twitter, the seven-year-old startup.
- Since AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, PalTalk, Skype, and Yahoo were named to PRISM's list of tech companies, I thought it would be interesting to see how Twitter employees reacted to the news.
Pulling up @twitter's official Twitter list of its employees on Twitter - a list that has nearly 80,000 subscribers - I was able to take a peak into the thoughts (legally!) of 1,252 members of the social media company's flock. (It's worth noting that this list, although it is the most-subscribed-to list on Twitter, hasn't seen a significant update in quite some time now, meaning new employees' tweets may not be featured in the list's stream.) - You want to know why #NSA and #PRISM are trending right now??? Because everyone in America knows how dirty all of this is!#BigBrother
- Given that a strong majority of US citizens support the current drone policy, it's hard to imagine they'll give much of a shit about PRISM.
- NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection programwashingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special… Twitter is NOT the one of nine.
- i'm proud of twitter's legal dept as much as the next guy, but all public tweets are in the library of congress, so... yeah
Yea! Twitter is not in the list of the PRISM providers. (yet) http://pic.twitter.com/ZOPSbz9PGg- “No one wants a pen that’s going to rat them out,”. Proud to work with @amac. qz.com/91889/twitter-…
- The only way the NSA isn't collecting data on you is if your entire online presence consists of tweeting on T-mobileonline.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
- Most people don't need to worry b/c they won't ever be thorn in gov's side. But for activists and radicals, the stakes are much higher.
- Yes, people were like "no big deal, it's just politics" during Watergate too. History proved those fools wrong.
- I love how these whistle blowers are giving a giant fuck you to Obama.
- If the NSA wanted access to everyones Facebook data wouldn't they just become an advertiser?
- "Can you hear me now? Yes, thanks." - NSA Agent on Verizon
- I'm sure this is just the NSA's new venture as a data recovery service. After this beta test we can pay for the privilege of being watched.
- Lets trust the government with ALL our personal data, but not trust them to regulate healthcare. #priorities
- Gov knows everything you say, write, and do at any point anywhere… But yeah, that shotgun you have thx to the 2nd amend will protect you.
- This is one list of companies that I'm very proud @twitter is NOT part of wapo.st/1888aNq
- #Proud. RT @amac: Twitter boosts its privacy cred with its absence from the NSA's surveillance program nzzl.me/15FpN2a via@Nuzzel
- I hope @Dropbox 's integration into the NSA's snooping infrastructure is as seamless as everything else they do!
- Twitter, the company, has yet to give comment on the situation. The account belonging to its top lawyer, @amac, tweeted an article from Quartz that was titled, "Twitter boosts its privacy cred with its absence from NSA's surveillance program." Apparently, that tweet from @amac's account was accidentally sent by the founder & CEO of Nuzzel, a social news company, when wires somewhere were crossed. It's now been deleted.
Two employees noted that Twitter isn't on the list "yet".
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