“These are acts of ‘Privacy Seppuku’ – honorably and - TopicsExpress



          

“These are acts of ‘Privacy Seppuku’ – honorably and publicly shutting down (“suicide”) rather than being forced to comply with laws and courts intent on violating people’s privacy,” Kumar said in his blog post. The concept he was referring to was developed by secure service providers such as Cryptocloud, which made a ‘corporate seppuku’ pledge to oppose the mass surveillance and shield the privacy of their users’ data. The name for the move apparently derives from a Japanese ritual suicide, which was originally practiced by samurai to preserve honor. According to Cryptocloud team’s board post cited by Kumar, “corporate seppuku” is “shutting down a company rather than agreeing to become an extension of the massive, ever-expanding, secretive global surveillance network organized by the US National Security Agency.” rt/news/mega-secure-email-lavabit-359/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:21:00 +0000

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