Surveillance: NSA Chief Alexander Joins Amazon Board

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 23:29:43 PDT 2020


https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429635/amazon-keith-alexander-board-of-directors-nsa-cyber-command
https://sec.report/Document/0001018724-20-000026/
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/10/27/2025200/nsa-chief-keith-alexander-takes-his-prism-pitch-to-youtube
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/03/10/2212236/federal-judge-admits-existence-of-nsas-prism-program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa#Privacy_concerns

Don't forget to say hi to "Alex"a... she's always on, always listening
and recording you, always connected to the internet, always closed
source...


Gen. Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors, the
company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today.
The Verge reports: A former director of the National Security Agency
and the first commander of the US Cyber Command, Alexander served as
the public face of US data collection during the Edward Snowden leaks,
but he retired from public service in 2013. Alexander is a
controversial figure for many in the tech community because of his
involvement in the widespread surveillance systems revealed by the
Snowden leaks. Those systems included PRISM, a broad data collection
program that compromised systems at Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and
Facebook -- but not Amazon.
Alexander was broadly critical of reporting on the Snowden leaks, even
suggesting that reporters should be legally restrained from covering
the documents. [...] Alexander's board spot will also give Amazon new
expertise in defense contracting, an area of particular focus for the
company in recent years.


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