IBM’s chief counsel, Robert Weber, released a statement Friday reassuring clients about government access to their data and calling it the “next great natural resource.”
He assured clients that IBM has never provided their information to the National Security Agency under PRISM or any other surveillance program involving bulk collection of content or metadata, has never provided data stored outside of the U.S. to the government under a national security order, and does not put “backdoors” in its products for any government agency. “IBM has and will continue to comply with the local laws, including data privacy laws, in all countries in which it operates,” he promises.
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