{"id":2228,"date":"2021-07-09T00:53:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T00:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2021-07-09T00:53:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T00:53:46","slug":"tech-lobbying-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/tech-lobbying-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech + Lobbying + Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? In 2013 8 tech companies formed Reform Government Surveillance to lobby for surveillance reforms by opposing the\u00a0&#8220;dragnet collection of Americans\u2019 private data&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? we&#8217;re talking about Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and AOL, Amazon, Dropbox, Evernote, Snap and Zoom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? A lobbying firm that runs the coalition decided that Evernote wasn&#8217;t active enough, so they removed its logo. The company says it&#8217;s still a member. This is a cautionary tale that tech companies, and tech media will notice tech changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/07\/08\/evernote-surveillance-lobbying\/\">Tech Crunch | Evernote quietly disappeared from an anti-surveillance lobbying group\u2019s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? In 2013 8 tech companies formed Reform Government Surveillance to lobby for surveillance reforms by opposing the\u00a0&#8220;dragnet collection of Americans\u2019 private data&#8221; Why is this important? we&#8217;re talking about Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and AOL, Amazon, Dropbox, Evernote, Snap and Zoom How will this be important? A lobbying firm that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}