Late last week, two executives from Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) were involved in correspondence concerning the company’s strategy in combating cyber terrorism and improving the security along its multiple services.
The online giant took to the move following the Federal decision contrary to the NSA’s telephone metadata collection. Reddit might be making plans to introduce its AMAs into a video sequence. Nonetheless, their initial text versions still have the capacity to hold and produce information in large quantities.
The two executives were David Lieber, who works at Google as the company’s senior privacy policy advisor and Richard Salgado, who holds the position of the law enforcement director. He is also in charge of information security. The two went on the in support of a new bill called the USA Freedom Act.
The act was proposed following the impending expiry of Section 215 of the Patriot Act which gives the NSA the legal right to hold public metadata surveillance. The act is set to expire on June 1. The new act if passed will limit surveillance especially on an individual basis.
The correspondence session yielded some interesting facts about Google and the topic of cyber security. There were speculations about the company having backdoor portals that the government agents could use to access the company records and database. Salgado, however, declined and dismissed these allegations.
In matters regarding security protocols, Google mentioned that it is improving its efforts to tighten the encryption on most of its services such as hangouts. The issue of security with Google comes just a few months after Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s privacy violation allegations.
In the same way as Facebook, the controversial discussion about the NSA came by the words of a whistleblower by the name Edward’s Snowden. Despite arguments as to whether he revealing the information is heroic or an act of treason, it is safe to say that he has raised a very important issue.
The security measures discussed mostly protect users within America. One of the important questions raised was what measures Google is putting into place to protect users from other countries.
