According to a recent estimate by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the US cloud industry could lose $22 billion to $35 billion of revenues in the next years, simply due to concerns over NSA surveillance of U.S.-based cloud data centers.
Are you going to trust your customers data to Salesforce.com if you are an European oil company dealing with people in the Middle East?
The resent report in the Guardian, the Times said that the NSA spends more than $250 million of US citizens tax money, a year on a program working with technology companies to “covertly influence” product designs.
Despite earlier US assurances that its Department of Defense does not “engage in economic espionage in any domain,” a new report suggests that the intelligence agency NSA spied on Brazilian state-run oil giant Petrobras.
Dear Americans talk to your politicians in Washington, before its to late.
Your IT-industry is one of your biggest income sources, where the US is the world leader within the IT industry!
The United States has been a leader in scientific research and technological innovation since the late 19th century. I really like the USA, it's the land of entrepreneurship with economic freedom. Did Steve Jobs grow up in China? Or did Burma or India produce Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or Mark Zuckerberg? Could Sergey Brin have co-founded Google while remaining in Russia?
Also Al Gore said that the NSA's collection of US citizens' phone records was "not really the American way".
The IT Industry Competitiveness Index