news continues here on r t the c.e.o. of yahoo says internet companies are being put under serious pressure by the u.s. government not to talk about what information intelligence agencies are requesting she said even talking about the prism spy program could see her facing charges of treason. has the details of the developing scandal. and facebook are among the big internet companies that have been continue to face mounting criticism for violating users' privacy by complying with the n.s.a. surveillance program but yahoo c.e.o. marissa mayer now says that her hands are essentially tied and rejecting the agency's request would amount to treason mayer made her comments at a san francisco tech crunch press conference where she and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told the audience that they are obliged to comply with washington's spy programs miss mayer stated that it makes more sense for companies to work within the system of any big internet company big data company attempts to release classified information without the government's

tactics have been and how much authority this agency actually wields extraordinary to think the c.e.o. of yahoo says she could actually. treason charges how big corporations. have a big corporations being before the government in this sort of way. well i think that there's an effort from everybody we've interviewed over the course of the past months there's clearly a consensus that there is an effort there's a push to silence these corporations but it appears that these big data companies like facebook yahoo and google are beginning beginning to follow in the footsteps of smaller companies that have actually stood up to the n.s.a. and refused to comply with their spying requests for example the owner of x. mission that's an internet provider he has refused to comply with the n.s.a. data requests. told r.t. that the only solution for keeping the government from spying is using encryption and having service providers that are willing to stand up against fraud surveillance and wholesale monitoring another example is a lot of it and. mail provider which was actually used by n.s.a. whistleblower edw

ability to take your business your money and your freedom and that speaks to sort of what what the c.e.o. of yahoo was saying what the c.e.o. of facebook is beginning to say but it looks as though these big data companies are beginning to speak publicly as you mentioned they have filed a lawsuit together to disclose classified information and maybe at the end of the day this will benefit users this will benefit citizens who feel that their privacy have been violated for so long. marina thank you very much indeed for that we appreciate it. from. the on going leaks from ana say whistleblower edward snowden cools rule every time they manage people across the world being shown just how much their private lives and private being monitored by intelligence services and i discussed this issue with kevin mitnick one of the world's most renowned computer. according to revelations emails phone calls messages a role being tracked so how can the government god i think have access to everything at least in the united states and probably britain great britain and now it's there's been some revelations that they'

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the white house is accused of gagging big corporations with the c.e.o. of yahoo suggesting that even talking about the n.s.a. spying program could amount to treason. live from studio center here in moscow where it's just turned eleven pm this is r.t. with international news and comment syria agreeing to give up its chemical weapons did not come as a result of the u.s. threatening a military strike president assad has told a russian t.v. channel the interview took place as russia and the u.s. try to reach consensus on the u.n. security council resolution which will see moscow's plan to rid syria of chemical weapons implemented foreign minister sergey lavrov is meeting the u.s. state john kerry in geneva right now and the two spoke to the media about an hour ago and reports from their. join kerry speak for quite a long time he reiterated the u.s.a.'s possession he said that he believes that the u.s. believes that it on the minds of all guest syrian syrian government interest the chemical and. really. that was planted all of this crisis now but he also said very abo

and other news this hour the white house is accusing big corporation with the c.e.o. of yahoo suggesting that even talking about the n.s.a. spying program could amount to treason the latest developments here. live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned ten pm this is r.t. with international news and comment syria agreeing to give up its chemical weapons did not come as a result of the u.s. threatening military strike president assad has told a russian t.v. channel the interview took place as russia and the u.s. try to reach consensus on a u.n. security council resolution which will see moscow's plan to rid syria of chemical weapons implemented foreign minister lavrov is meeting the u.s. secretary of state john kerry in geneva and the two have just spoken to the media and joins me live now to give us the latest. so what was said at that media briefing and what do you think will actually be said what will be the conclusion of that meeting later between the two between john kerry and lavrov. well john kerry and sergey lavrov have just been speaking to the pr

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no one forced the c.e.o. of yahoor the pictures and you are complaining we are coughing it. >> no, i am saying it is a double bind. you want to look good and get in made an audience you would not normally get in and put yourself out this and people say, that is all she, a pretty face. she has an engineering degree and one of the first employees of google. >> back to this article by carlson, extensively reported piece but in criticism he called her absurd in obsession with detail, constantly late and cancels meetings. >> i read that article once and i read it begin and put in the pronounce "he" rather than "she." it read fine to me. he criticized former acting c.e.o. and said how good he looked in the sweater vest. he did a great job at trying to humanize her, criticize her and at the same time be fair. >> but he said she was brilliant. she got the stock price up. yet, there was a kneejerk reaction of some saying he is calling hero boughtic and stuck up. >> we will not win until there are more women c.e.o.'s period. th

yahoo c.e.o. marissa mayer said that she has made numerous pushes for transparency but that she is at the end of her rope lesson. and you know the seven yahoo filed a lawsuit against the venue of the patriot act hard a prison uprising and you lose somebody we've lost you if you don't comply it's treason so if they can't find back against the government does anyone else stand a chance let's get to today's tech report with eric hess and all he's a senior editor at all things digital era thank you so much for joining me were any of these surprising calm were any of these comments by either mayor or zuckerberg surprising to you. that out surprising because they're pretty much they're fairly consistent with the positions that the companies have generally taken so far. facebook and microsoft in particular yahoo as well and google in particular they've all taken kind of a fairly consistent line in that they don't like the. requests are coming from government agencies and so they've been trying very hard to convince the government you can through litigation or to sort of negotiation or a combination of both

c.e.o.'s of facebook and yahoo are speaking out against the n.s.a.ndal mark zuckerberg and the rest of the mayor have voiced their concerns over the expansion of surveillance we'll hear their concerns later in our tech report.

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c.e.o. of zap zappos.com. >> we encourage our employees to interact as much as possible both inside and outside the office. that's hard to do from a telecommuting position. >> when yahoo'sew c.e.o. melissa mayers' bombshell was wreaked in february that she was radically scaling back telecommuting as part of her turnaround strategy for the ailing tech giant, zappos tony shea publicly defended her. >> a great story. >> this is the idea wall from tony shea's work space. shea believes that great ideas come from what he calls "collisions." >> this is the only way in. every single one of our employees, visitors, everyone who companies in will start here, and then go their various ways. >> zach ware oversaw the transformation of the old city hall complex in downtown las vegas into zappos new campus. >> the plaza is kind of our lobby. it gives us an opportunity to bring everyone together before they go their various ways. >> nearly completed, the refit has been all about engineering those creative collisions. >> the average office has anywhere from 150 to 200 square feet per person when you combine all the space and divide it by number of employees. we will be at roughly 90 squ