
The only winners of the NSA debacle are companies that protect your online privacy
By Christopher Mims @mims
Hiding from the government: Way easier in real life than online.
Companies that protect your privacy with software are seeing a big to their businesses following revelations that America’s internet giants have been turned into appendages of its surveillance state.
The companies don’t create products that are specifically designed to thwart NSA spying or government surveillance, but as Sarah Downey, privacy analyst for privacy software company Abine explained, “One thing that’s emerged [from the NSA leak] is that the social networks and data trackers are the source of the data supply chain. The private companies are collecting...