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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApple, Google, Microsoft and more demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-surveillance-tech-companies-demand-sweeping-changes-to-us-lawsAOL, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple and LinkedIn to call for reforms to restore the public's trust in the internet
Monday 9 December 2013 05.26 EST
The world's leading technology companies have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws, urging an international ban on bulk collection of data to help preserve the public's trust in the internet.
In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL will publish an open letter to Barack Obama and Congress on Monday, throwing their weight behind radical reforms already proposed by Washington politicians.
The balance in many countries has tipped too far in favour of the state and away from the rights of the individual rights that are enshrined in our constitution, urges the letter signed by the eight US-based internet giants. This undermines the freedoms we all cherish. Its time for change.
Several of the companies claim the revelations have shaken public faith in the internet and blamed spy agencies for the resulting threat to their business interests. People wont use technology they dont trust, said Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel. Governments have put this trust at risk, and governments need to help restore it.
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Apple, Google, Microsoft and more demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws (Original Post)
G_j
Dec 2013
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Coyotl
(15,262 posts)1. Bravo. These company execs have insider info they cannot reveal to the rest of us.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. Irony, irony, irony!
Rex
(65,616 posts)3. Restore the public's trust?
GOOD ONE!