America's Tech Giants Call For Reforming The NSA

Tech Giants Team Up To Battle NSA Surveillance, Governmental Snooping -- Extreme Tech

Eight of the world’s largest tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple, have joined forces to launch the Reform Government Surveillance website and open letter. The website specifically calls out the US government, and governments worldwide, for their over-reaching and highly opaque information gathering activities. The open letter asks the US government to lead worldwide efforts to “ensure that government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted by law, proportionate to the risks, transparent and subject to independent oversight.”

The coalition, which consists of AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo, asks for surveillance reform in five areas: limiting governments’ authority to collect users’ information, oversight and accountability, transparency about government demands, respecting the free flow of information, and avoiding conflicts among governments. The Reform Government Surveillance website breaks down these five principles in further detail, if you’re interested.

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