Tech Giants Team-Up, Call for Reform of Govt Surveillance Programs (MSFT) (AAPL) (GOOG)

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) and others are taking a stand against the NSA.

Over the weekend, reports hit that a consortium of tech giants started the website ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com, or RGS for short. According to the introductory paragraph on the website:

The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information.

While the undersigned companies understand that governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety and security, we strongly believe that current laws and practices need to be reformed.

Consistent with established global norms of free expression and privacy and with the goals of ensuring that government law enforcement and intelligence efforts are rule-bound, narrowly tailored, transparent, and subject to oversight, we hereby call on governments to endorse the following principles and enact reforms that would put these principles into action.

The effort comes following former Nationasl Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden exposing different lines of top-secret government surveillance programs over the summer.

Again, you can access the website here.

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