[1]Sue Gordon: Silicon Valley Should Work With the Government:

    Sue Gordon, the principal deputy director of national intelligence,
    wakes up every day at 3 am, jumps on a Peloton, and reads up on all
    the ways the world is trying to destroy the United States. By the
    afternoon noon, she has usually visited the Oval Office and met with
    the heads of the 17 intelligence agencies to get threat reports. The
    self-described "chief operating officer of the intelligence
    community" has a lot to worry about, but the 37-year veteran is
    generally optimistic about America's future. Now, she says, she just
    needs Silicon Valley to realize that [2]tech and government don't
    have to be opposed.

    On a recent trip to Silicon Valley, Gordon sat down with WIRED to
    talk about how much government needs Silicon Valley to join the
    fight to keep the US safe. She was in town to speak at conference at
    Stanford, but also to convince tech industry leaders industry that
    despite [3]increasing employee concerns, the government and tech
    have a lot of shared goals.

    "I had a meeting with Google where my opening bid was: 'We're in the
    same business'. And they're like 'What?' And I said: 'Using
    information for good,'" Gordon says.

    That's a hard sell in Silicon Valley, especially [4]in the
    post-Snowden years. After Snowden's leaks, tech companies and tech
    workers didn't want to be seen as complicit with a government that
    spied on its own people-a fact Gordon disputes, saying that any
    collection of citizen's information was incidental and purged by
    their systems. This led to a much-publicized disconnect between the
    two power centers, one that has only grown more entrenched and
    public in 2018, as Silicon Valley has undergone something of an
    ethical awakening.

  (Via [5]Security Latest)

  I'd say I have complicated emotions about this, but it's my rational
  brain that struggles. I don't know if Ms. Gordon's story makes it
  better but I appreciate seeing a bit from her perspective.
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  With the Government. It posted Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:51:00 +0000.
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References

  1. https://www.wired.com/story/sue-gordon-us-intelligence-public-private-google-amazon
  2. https://www.wired.com/story/why-big-tech-and-the-government-need-to-work-together/
  3. https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/
  4. https://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/
  5. https://www.wired.com/feed/category/security/latest/rss
  6. https://twitter.com/prjorgensen/status/1065348284263350277
  7. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=2333