Tuesday, December 17, 2013

President Obama Meets Tech Firms On NSA Reform

Obama meets with tech leaders including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and AT&T chairman Randall Stephenson. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Tech Firms Push Back Against White House Efforts To Divert NSA Meeting -- The Guardian

• Administration said meeting would focus on healthcare website
• 'We are here to talk about the NSA,' says one tech executive
• Yahoo and others have already demanded sweeping reforms

The top leaders from the world’s biggest technology companies pressed their case for reform of the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance operations at a meeting with President Obama on Tuesday, resisting attempts by the White House to portray the encounter as a wide-ranging discussion of broader priorities.

Senior executives from the companies whose bosses were present at the meeting said they were determined to keep the discussion focused on the NSA, despite the White House declaring in advance that it would focus on ways of improving the functionality of the troubled health insurance website, healthcare.gov, among other matters.

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More News On President Obama Meeting Tech Firms On NSA Reform

Obama meets with tech CEOs amid NSA concerns -- Washington Post/AP
Tech firms meet Obama to press their case for NSA surveillance reform -- The Guardian
As Tech Industry Leaders Meet With Obama, NSA Ruling Looms Large -- New York Times
Tech executives to push Obama for NSA limits -- UPI
Under fire Barack Obama meets Internet chieftains over spying -- Economic Times/AFP
Obama and tech giants to talk NSA, health-care website -- CBC
Obama to Meet With Tech Heads -- Voice of America
Obama to meet with tech bosses after judge rules on NSA data-mining -- CNN
Who's In, Who's Out at Obama's Meeting of Tech Execs? -- Mashable

My Comment: Here is an easy prediction .... this meeting is going to produce ZERO changes when it comes to the NSA and it's surveillance program.

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