“As concerns over the Internet security are at their highest, in an interview to Voice of Russia, Jeremie Zimmermann, founder and spokesperson for La Quadrature du Net, a citizen advocacy group defending fundamental freedoms online, talked about how tech companies handle personal data and how they cooperate with surveillance schemes.”
In response to a question on whether efforts by Tech companies to be more transparent about their data sharing habits, he said:
“This is crisis management communication [by Tech companies – Microsoft, Google, Facebook] mostly, because their customers are losing trust in their products. […]
The reality is that we cannot trust them anymore, because a whole bunch of US laws forces them into cooperating with mass surveillance and forces them in the way where they can never reveal the truth about it.”
http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_11_06/We-cannot-trust-closedown-software-and-hardware-to-protect-our-freedoms-expert-5982/