> The NSA's filtering, carried out with telecom companies, is designed to look for communications that either originate or end abroad, or are entirely foreign but happen to be passing through the U.S.
This will have a "Great Firewall of China"-Effect:
- Americans will cut data exchange (and communication) with the outside
- The rest of the World will cut data exchange (and communication) with Americans (obviously, this will include the use of IT-related US products/services)
I don't think so. It's not like this is the first spy scandal of this type and previous ones (Echelon etc.) don't seem to have any long-term effect on commercial or communications traffic.
How would you tell? In an environment with such a high rate of growth, would we detect a lower-than-"control", but still high, growth rate as a change?
This will have a "Great Firewall of China"-Effect:
- Americans will cut data exchange (and communication) with the outside
- The rest of the World will cut data exchange (and communication) with Americans (obviously, this will include the use of IT-related US products/services)