Giving Up Liberty for Safety
Benjamin Franklin's quote "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" is coming home to roost. Germany is giving up it's contract with Verizon over Verizon being required to provide certain things to the NSA. German interior Ministry spokesman Tobias Plate has told this to Bloomberg that one of the reasons the cooperation with Verizon won't continue is that Verizon cannot guarantee not to share data with foreign governments with the NSA.
This all means that this is the start of Tech companies being denied business because of the stance that the NSA and the US government has taken. Tech companies have complained that the stigma of NSA spying has made products harder to market overseas. Unless otherwise changing this stance of safety we will be losing or have already lost liberty. Benjamin Franklin's quote and application is another product of men not learning from history, that is why history repeats itself.
