Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry?

The drama surrounding the NSA’s secret surveillance program of phone records and emails has unleashed a wave of worry about privacy issues for Americans. But those concerns miss a potentially bigger fallout, says David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect” and founder and CEO of Techonomy, a tech conference and media company. “The reality is all these great American [Internet] companies are global companies,” Kirkpatrick tells The Daily Ticker. “They have to be extremely conscious of the way they ar