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I’ve only been CEO for a year and a half when something happens that will change the nature of the global tech industry. In June 2013, an intelligence contractor named Edward Snowden leaks classified government documents to the Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers. The documents state that the US government has been collecting data from several tech companies to track people potentially connected to terrorism. The program, called PRISM, conducts broad sweeps of internet traffic, making it possible for the private communications of American citizens to be collected and possibly viewed without a court order, amounting to warrantless surveillance. The leaked documents list several well-known tech companies as PRISM ...
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