UPDATED 09:37 EDT / AUGUST 09 2013

LIVE: Lavabit Closing – The Beginning of an NSA Coverup?

Welcome to NewsDesk on SiliconANGLE TV for August 9, 2013. In July Edward Snowden emailed journalists and activists through the email account edsnowden@lavabit.com to invite them to a briefing at the Moscow airport. Since then, Texas-based email provider Lavabit has garnered a flurry of attention and attracted many users seeking an email alternative that promised not to scan users emails. Here to give his input on the NSA media rush is SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto.

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After being identified as the email provider of choice for famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Gmail alternative Lavabit is now making the decision to shut-down rather than hand over data as part of a government investigation presumably into Edward Snowden. Many are calling the move heroic, for trying to protect the information of their customers, but others fear that Lavabit’s closing could have ulterior motives.

On today’s episode of NewsDesk with Kristin Feledy, we’ll be speaking with our very own security expert John Casaretto as he discusses the latest twists and turns of the ongoing Edward Snowden affair.

We’ll be sure to ask him whether or not Lavabit’s actions we’re really caused by the government, and we’ll inquire as to whether or not there’s any chance of Lavabit being resurrected.

Also, we’ll get John’s commentary on a message left behind from Lavabit’s founder, urging that everyone stop trusting their private data to companies with physical ties to the US. With the government trying to cover the scandal up, it begs the question – what else are they hiding.

This story and your Daily News Roundup will be coming up in just a few minutes on NewsDesk with Kristin Feledy.

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