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Eight of the biggest companies in technology have united to speak out against the NSA's leaked surveillance programs and demand sweeping reforms. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo have all signed a letter to President Obama and Congress that The Hill reports will run in national print ads on Monday.
"We understand that governments have a duty to protect their citizens," begins the letter. "But this summer's revelations highlighted the urgent need to reform government surveillance practices worldwide." The letter also appears on a new website, Reform Government Surveillance, which further outlines the group's positions.
Most of these companies signed an open letter back in October calling for changes in the way the NSA operates, and all of them have backed bills allowing them to reveal more about government data requests, but the Reform Government Surveillance campaign is more populist and explicit about exactly what the companies expect from authorities in the future.
The coalition calls for five principles behind surveillance reform: 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 security of users' data is critical, which is why we've invested so much in encryption and fight for transparency around government requests for information," says Google CEO Larry Page. "This is undermined by the apparent wholesale collection of data, in secret and without independent oversight, by many governments around the world."
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says that "it is time for the United States government to act to restore the confidence of citizens around the world," a sentiment echoed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who believes that the government "should take this opportunity to lead this reform effort and make things right."
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So let's see -- the very same firms that were willing to secretly open back doors for the U.S. spies for several years now, want to convince us that they're really our friends and want to fight for our cause and our privacy?

Do you stop laughing today or tomorrow with this nonsense? I wouldn't trust any of these entities as far as I can spit. They are probably busy constructing new stealth backdoor schemes before the ink is dry on their letter to the U.S. lawmakers.

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The higher ups in each of these companies probably knew that tha NSA had direct backdoors into everything, this recent news is merely for public consumption. What is actually happening is (unoffically) the merger of these corporations under an umberella of servailance and sophisticated spying. Because they were caught, they got to pretend to be against it when in reality, they are probably being used to usher in a more iron grin lockdown system on the Internet. They are alligning to accomplish the takeover of freedom while pretending to combat spying.

Given the RARE chance that these companies are turning on the NSA, it's only out of self preservance, as a way to not forever tarnish the name of thier corporations. Google was a guest at the last Bilderberg meeting that Watford, I hardly doubt they have decided to back away from THAT.


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I think that Google & co never loved give data to NSA but they had to!

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