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Internet Giants Make Public Push for Surveillance Reform

2013-12-09 18:35:27| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

The nation's top Internet firms are making a more public push for government surveillance reform, demanding limited user data collection and more transparency, among other things.

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Tech giants team up to battle NSA surveillance, governmental snooping

2013-12-09 15:56:32| Extremetech

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.

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Outgoing Deutsche Telekom chief blasts EU and German leaders over surveillance inaction

2013-12-09 15:21:29| Telecom - Topix.net

Rene Obermann, who will end his seven-year spell as head of Germany's big telecoms player at the end of the month, said in an interview that he doesn't understand why everyone is "pussy-footing" around the U.S. on privacy issues.

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Apple, Google, Microsoft ask governments to reform surveillance practices

2013-12-09 14:21:44| InfoWorld: Top News

Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and asked the U.S. to take the lead. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo and Microsoft said Monday that they understand that governments need to take action to protect their citizens' safety and security, but "strongly believe that current laws and practices need to be reformed."

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