09.12.2013 - 13:13 [ Guardian ]

Apple, Google, Microsoft and more demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws

In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL will publish an open letter to Barack Obama and Congress on Monday, throwing their weight behind radical reforms already proposed by Washington politicians.