What's even more strange is that nobody noticed for two years, not even Evernote. But then sometime in June 2019, Evernote quietly disappeared from the RGS website without warning. The idea was simple enough: to call on lawmakers to limit surveillance to targeted threats rather than conduct a dragnet collection of Americans' private data, provide greater oversight and allow companies to be more transparent about the kinds of secret orders for user data that they receive.Īpple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and AOL were the founding members of Reform Government Surveillance, or RGS, and over the years added Amazon, Dropbox, Evernote, Snap and Zoom as members. National Security Agency under the so-called PRISM program, according to highly classified government documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Six months later, the tech companies formed a coalition under the name Reform Government Surveillance, which as the name would suggest was to lobby lawmakers for reforms to government surveillance laws. In 2013, eight tech companies were accused of funneling their users’ data to the U.S. A spokesman for the RGS firms said the firms would “leave and leave the trading firms” as they were not so surprised.An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2013, eight tech companies were accused of funneling their users' data to the U.S. TechCrunch also asked other agencies in the RGS alliance if they knew why Evernote was removed and not everyone responded, commented or had any idea. Nevertheless, the Evernote was a strong ally of the ship’s entry and showed the RGS that its support for government surveillance law reform is looking beyond the leaked NSA files to the designated entities.Įvernote mentions RG’s membership in its most recent transparency report and supports “efforts to reform laws and regulations governing the public surveillance of individuals and access to their information” – which makes its disappearance from the RGS website even more bizarre. Evernote joined the alliance in October 2014 a year and a half after PRISM went public, although the company was never named in Snowden’s leaked documents.
“We do not understand that our logo has been removed from the Reform Government Surveillance website,” said an Evernote spokesman, referring to TechCrunch’s comments. Even more surprising is that for two years no one noticed, not even Evernote. Evernote quietly disappeared from an anti-surveillance lobbying group’s website In 2013, eight tech companies were accused of funneling their users’ data to the U.S. But then in June 2019, Evernote silently disappeared from the RGS website without warning. The idea was simple enough: to provide greater surveillance to limit surveillance of targeted threats to citizens for the collection of Americans’ personal information, and to call on lawyers to be more transparent about the secret orders that users receive data.Īpple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and AOL (later the owner of TechCrunch – which now became Verizon Media) are now reformed government surveillance, or founding members of RGS and for several years as members of Amazon, Dropbox, Evernote, and Zoom. Six months later, technology companies formed a coalition called Reform Public Surveillance, which recommended that lawmakers lobby for reform of government surveillance laws. National Security Agency under a so-called PRISM program, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s highly classified official documents. In 2013, eight technology companies were accused of leaking their user data to the U.S.
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