Tech giants to government: Back off the spying

President Obama and the U.S. Congress received a letter on Monday from some of the biggest players in tech, and it wasn’t a love note.
 
According to CNNMoney, tech giants from Apple to Yahoo signed a letter strongly urging the U.S. government to take another look at its spying program, which the companies say infringes upon individuals’ rights and puts them at a competitive disadvantage as a result of lost trust.
 
The companies are lobbying for more transparency, limits to what the government can collect and a legal framework for surveillance actions. The requests were apparently triggered by documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that reveal information about the NSA’s spying program and the tech companies’ various degrees of participation.

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