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December 9, 2013 12:28 pm GMT
Before Congress’s holiday recess, Silicon Valley’s major tech companies have renewed calls for surveillance reform. Executives from Google, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, Linkedin, Twitter, and (TechCrunch parent company) Aol all offered quotes to push their collective letter to Congress and President Obama. Since whistleblower Edward snowden first revealed the National Security Agency’s vast telephone and Internet dragnet, the tech companies have become increasingly vocal about reform. In a new letter that reveals a moderately more amount of detail, the tech companies have outlines 5 new reforms: Limit surveillance to targeted threats, rather than bulk collection Provide greater oversight for surveillance More transparency about how many users are being surveilled Allow the “free flow of information” by not requiring “service providers to locate infrastructure within a country’s borders or operate locally.” Establish standard of rules across all governments The first three of these have already been proposed by a few groups in Congress and more reforms could be added as Congress reconvenes next year.
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Tech Companies Outline More NSA Reform Demands
Before Congress’s holiday recess, Silicon Valley’s major tech companies have renewed calls for surveillance reform. Executives from Google, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, Linkedin, Twitter, and (TechCrunch parent company) Aol all offered quotes to push their collective letter to Congress and President Obama. Since whistleblower Edward snowden first revealed the National Security Agency’s vast telephone and Internet dragnet, the tech companies have become increasingly vocal about reform. In a new letter that reveals a moderately more amount of detail, the tech companies have outlines 5 new reforms: Limit surveillance to targeted threats, rather than bulk collection Provide greater oversight for surveillance More transparency about how many users are being surveilled Allow the “free flow of information” by not requiring “service providers to locate infrastructure within a country’s borders or operate locally.” Establish standard of rules across all governments The first three of these have already been proposed by a few groups in Congress and more reforms could be added as Congress reconvenes next year.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DVZS-YmwYMo/
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