Last December, President Obama met at the White House with top tech execs including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. (Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Obama Meets Internet Bosses On Surveillance -- AFP
Washington — US President Barack Obama met bosses from Facebook, Google and other Internet giants Friday to discuss plans to overhaul US spy agency surveillance practices which have infuriated the industry.
Obama sat down with company chiefs including Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who said last week he had called the president personally to express frustration with the vast online intelligence dragnets.
A White House official said the meeting was to continue Obama's "dialogue with them on the issues of privacy, technology and intelligence."
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WNU Editor: The meeting was scheduled for 16:00 EST. I will update this story tomorrow morning. I do not expect much from this get together .... almost all of these CEOs are Democrat supporters, and I doubt that they are not going to publicly disagree with the President.
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