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Microsoft Warns Of 'Orwellian Future' As WikiLeaks Exposes Participation With Surveillance

• LewRockwell.com by Alexa Erickson

The revelation put Microsoft in the hot seat, with people speculating that the tech giant may have been aware that the CIA works with features specifically built into Microsoft computers to collect data and perform tasks.

Microsoft's history would suggest the worst, from Edward Snowden's 2013 leaks that revealed Microsoft had "collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption," to the NSA bragging about their newly acquired ability to triple the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism just nine months after Microsoft bought Skype.

Microsoft's CEO had an intriguing and controversial response to the new WikiLeaks documents. At the company's 2017 Build conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned the technology industry against creating a dystopian future, which authors including George Orwell and Aldous Huxley have predicted in the past.


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