Obama: Silicon Valley rather than Putin

....” We should recall that the market capitalization of GAFA surpasses $800 billion, which is equal to the GDP of Saudi Arabia, and their total turnover equaled that of Denmark in 2013. Therefore, for Barack Obama, it is now more important to talk to GAFA than to Vladimir Putin. The US IT-industry has become a key priority, both in terms of economic redevelopment, which is structured around these actors, and in terms of the country’s security strategy. Like bin Laden after the September 11 attacks, Snowden is contributing to the reshaping of the US security mechanisms, which redeployed to concentrate on electronic surveillance of the planet by the NSA and “cyber operations”, thus replacing costly and risky external interventions. The ...