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Why tech giants are now uniting against US surveillance

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Technology firms like Google and Facebook on Monday called on the US government to curtail its online surveillance. If users no longer trust them, such companies could face big problems. On Monday, a coalition of eight companies, including Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, sent an open letter to President Obama and members of Congress, urging them to comply with "established global norms of free expression and privacy." It all but demanded the government work to ensure that all law enforcement and intelligence efforts "are rule-bound, narrowly tailored, transparent, and subject to oversight."
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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