Google launched a page for users to sign...
Google launched a page for users to sign an online petition to “Demand real surveillance reform” (http://bit.ly/U7Cyma). The page, launched over the weekend, argues the “bulk collection” of Internet data such as names of email correspondents “runs counter to our…
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democratic principles.” It points to the USA Freedom Act (HR-3361), which passed the House (CD May 23 p9), but with language “watered down so badly that it will not prevent bulk Internet data collection.” As the bill moves to the Senate “it is critical that this loophole be closed,” the page says.