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June 11, 2013 11:40 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WdP3h7SFLn8/story01.htm
Stopwatching.us: Internet companies and civil liberties groups call for investigation into the surveillancestate
A coalition of Internet companies and civil liberties groups have signed on to an open letter to the Obama administration calling for increased transparency and sensible checks on the power of the American surveillance apparatus and its spy agencies. The signatories -- including Happy Mutants, the company that owns Boing Boing -- call on Congress to convene a committee like the Church Committee of the 1970s, to investigate the scope and legality of American surveillance.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WdP3h7SFLn8/story01.htm
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