Obama’s security summit “snubbed” by tech leaders

From Payment Eye -
"Apple appears to be one of the few companies willing to play ball with the US government’s proposed surveillance and security rules, with CEOs of Facebook, Microsoft and Google conspicuously absent from an Obama-led industry event.

Revelations by ex-NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden that the US gathers intelligence from social networks, e-commerce systems and other websites not caused an international outcry over consumer privacy.

Rather than scale back surveillance, the Obama administration is insisting that companies and websites that routinely collect customer data or facilitate communications and transactions between individuals will have to make this information available to the NSA. Plans announced at the summit show that the government is reluctant to tell companies how this data will be stored or used, making it a hard sell to their customers."

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Unauthorized FATCA 'Intergovernmental Agreements' Are Part of Obama's Executive Overreach

From Forbes

“As charged by House Speaker John Boehner, President Barack Obama has demonstrated an unprecedented circumvention of Congressional authority “through executive action, changing and creating his own laws, and excusing himself from enforcing statutes he is sworn to uphold — at times even boasting about his willingness to do it, as if daring the American people to stop him.”

Paradoxically, the Administration’s “boasting” has gone hand-in-hand with blatant dishonesty. Infamous examples are Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s denial to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the NSA collects “any type of data” on Americans and ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s supposed forgetfulness about targeting of conservative groups.

Now it’s time to add another instance where the Administration not only has far exceeded its constitutional and statutory authority but has misrepresented its actions and sought to thwart Congressional inquiry into them. At risk is not only constitutional and legal principle but a potential partial default by the federal government, with, literally, incalculable impact on the American and global economy.”

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