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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1236597" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/tech-giants-nsa-reform-surveillance-game-changer" target="_blank">Tech giants&#039; demand for NSA reform &#039;a major game-changer&#039;, advocates say - The Guardian</a>Senior figures behind efforts to curtail the powers of American spy agencies have seized on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-surveillance-tech-companies-demand-sweeping-changes-to-us-laws" target="_blank">the decision by the world’s largest tech companies to call for radical surveillance reform</a>, saying the unexpected intervention is a potential “game-changer”.In an open letter published jointly on Monday, eight tech giants, including Apple, Google and Facebook, said disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that basic rights and freedoms were being undermined.The companies – which also include Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, LinkedIn and Twitter, and have a combined value of $1.4tn – called for widespread changes that, if enacted, would end many of the current programs through which governments spy on citizens at home and abroad.&quot;This is a major game-changer,” Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy group, told the Guardian.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1236597, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/tech-giants-nsa-reform-surveillance-game-changer'][B]Tech giants' demand for NSA reform 'a major game-changer', advocates say - The Guardian[/B][/URL] Senior figures behind efforts to curtail the powers of American spy agencies have seized on [URL='http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-surveillance-tech-companies-demand-sweeping-changes-to-us-laws']the decision by the world’s largest tech companies to call for radical surveillance reform[/URL], saying the unexpected intervention is a potential “game-changer”. [B]In an open letter published jointly on Monday, eight tech giants, including Apple, Google and Facebook, said disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that basic rights and freedoms were being undermined.[/B] The companies – which also include Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, LinkedIn and Twitter, and have a combined value of $1.4tn – called for widespread changes that, if enacted, would end many of the current programs through which governments spy on citizens at home and abroad. "This is a major game-changer,” Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy group, told the Guardian. [/QUOTE]

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