IBM realises that any NSA relationship is an albatross
 

Biggish Blue has woken up and realised that close ties to the NSA are costing its customers and there is an advantage to keeping the spooks at arm’s length.

The company is the latest to say that it does not want to be associated with the NSA spy activities whatsoever and the company has revealed it has not provided client data to the US National Security Agency or any other government programmes surveying the internet and collecting bulk content and metadata.

The need to convince customers that it has nothing to do with the spooks is becoming critical. A report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation recently claimed the US cloud computing industry risks losing between $22 Billion and $35 billion of its foreign market over the next three years to competitors abroad, because of the NSA antics.

Brazil is considering asking service providers to hold data within the country, a move that Google describes as potentially fragmenting the internet.

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