Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo! and Twitter Letter to Obama on Surveillance


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Reuters | Reader Supported News | July 19, 2013

ozens of companies, non-profits and trade organizations including Apple Inc (NSQ:AAPL), Google Inc (NSQ:GOOG) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) sent a letter on Thursday pushing the Obama administration and Congress for more disclosures on the government’s national security-related requests for user data.

General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, suggested he was open to the idea but that officials were trying to determine a way to disclose that information without jeopardizing FBI investigations.

“We just want to make sure we do it right, that we don’t impact anything ongoing with the FBI. I think that’s the reasonable approach,” Alexander told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, when asked about the letter.

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