Sergey
Brin: Google Was
'Shocked' When It
Learned of NSA S**oping
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RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California —
Google cofounder
Sergey Brin said the company was shocked to learn that the National Security Agency (NSA)
was s**oping backbone data.
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Speaking with Re/Code's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the inaugural Code Conference (the replacement for the "D Conference"), Brin explained that even though the company was surprised to learn of the NSA's data-collection practices,
Google had already started encrypting much of that backbone data anyway.
He said the NSA revelations made the U.S. government look "hypocritical" and "raised a lot of policy questions."
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Sergey Brin: Google Was 'Shocked' When It Learned of NSA S**oping