Privacy and NSA spying are hot topics hitting the world scene. Microsoft Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith is the latest person to reach out for an international discussion on the issues



From Techradar:

The legal chief wrote a plea for help at the World Economic Forum to develop an international legal framework that will create surveillance and data-access rules across borders. Smith began the blog post applauding President Obama's recent actions reforming NSA phone spying and ending wiretaps on foreign leaders. But he also noted the world needs to regulate how intelligence is obtained across countries. Pointing to the new NSA rules that protect US citizens, the same restrictions don't apply to individuals from other countries. While there's a demand for customer data from governments around the world and as technology is more ubiquitous than ever, Smith says the privacy concerns must be discussed on a global level.

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