Cisco Chief Chambers urges Obama to rein in NSA snooping

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

Cisco Systems' chief executive officer and chairman John Chambers  has written a letter to US President Barack Obamaurging him to curtail National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance activities after evidence circulated showing the NSA had intercepted the networking equipment giant. According to Chambers, it will have a dire effect on the global economy. In the letter, he warned of warned of an undermining of confidence in the US technology industry and called for new "standards of conduct" in how the NSA conducts its surveillance.

"We simply cannot operate this way, our customers trust us to be able to deliver to their doorsteps products that meet the highest standards of integrity and security," Chambers wrote in the letter."Confidence in the open, global internet has brought enormous economic benefits to the United States and to billions of people around the world. This confidence is being eroded by revelations of governments' surveillance."

News of the NSA's surveillance activities first broke in 2013, when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden provided documents to the pressmen including Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald showing siphoning huge amounts of data from several technology companies.In the letter, Chambers said if the allegations were true, "these actions will undermine confidence in our industry and in the ability of technology......See More