老澳门开奖结果

For years now, the 老澳门开奖结果 and a coalition of other civil rights and civil liberties organizations have been working to roll back the NSA鈥檚 unconstitutional warrantless surveillance regime. This past summer鈥檚 revelations made the extent of this surveillance even more clear 鈥� and even more frightening.

Beyond phone call history, we now know the NSA has issued for user data to the major Internet companies, and deployed bulk surveillance techniques to access , , and .

Based on these revelations, the largest Internet companies came together in October to issue a calling the an 鈥渋mportant contribution to this discussion鈥� on NSA surveillance. The letter also called for increased transparency for these NSA programs, and denied that intelligence agencies had 鈥溾�榙irect access鈥� to our companies鈥� servers or that we are participants in a bulk Internet records collection program.鈥�

Unfortunately, these companies were wrong. It鈥檚 since been revealed that the NSA didn鈥檛 settle only for direct requests to those companies for data. Instead, the NSA betrayed their good faith, went behind their backs, and broke into the communication links of at least , directly accessing hundreds of millions of unencrypted user email and information.

Today, Google, Yahoo, AOL, LinkedIn, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter came together and issued a , recognizing that pervasive government surveillance 鈥渦ndermines the freedom we all cherish.鈥� Government surveillance also harms human rights, privacy, and these companies鈥� bottom lines. As Microsoft has recognized, 鈥淧eople won鈥檛 use a technology they don鈥檛 trust.鈥�

The 老澳门开奖结果 filed a lawsuit against the NSA鈥檚 mass call-tracking program just days after the program was revealed. With these major companies joining the fight to restore privacy and constitutional protections, the time for reform to end mass government surveillance is now.

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