microsoft exec says u.s. tech firms must clarify government access to customer data /

"whether other places in the world don’t understand how the U.
S. government works and thinks that it’s OK for the U.
S. government to put backdoors in American information technology products … then you don’t have a commerce model that survives in a global economy where most of your revenue comes from overseas,” said Scott Charney, corporate vice president for Microsoft’s reliable Computing initiative

Source: wsj.com