StartPage Prism program exposed
21/08/2013
Taken direct from Startpage – prism program exposed
No PRISM. No Surveillance. No Government Back Doors. You Have our Word on it.Giant US government Internet spying scandal revealedThe Washington Post and The Guardian have revealed a US government mass Internet surveillance program code-named “PRISM”. They report that the NSA and the FBI have been tapping directly into the servers of nine US service providers, including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, YouTube, AOL and Skype, and began this surveillance program at least seven years ago. (clarifying slides) These revelations are shaking up an international debate. StartPage has always been very outspoken when it comes to protecting people’s Privacy and civil liberties. So it won’t surprise you that we are a strong opponent of overreaching, unaccountable spy programs like PRISM. In the past, even government surveillance programs that were begun with good intentions have become tools for abuse, for example tracking civil rights and anti-war protesters. Programs like PRISM undermine our Privacy, disrupt faith in governments, and are a danger to the free Internet. StartPage and its sister search engine Ixquick have in their 14-year history never provided a single byte of user data to the US government, or any other government or agency. Not under PRISM, nor under any other program in the US, nor under any program anywhere in the world. Here’s how we are different:
Privacy. It’s not just our policy, it’s our mission.Sincerely, Robert E.G. Beens |