{"id":8168,"date":"2013-07-18T10:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T09:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=8168"},"modified":"2013-07-19T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T09:13:51","slug":"tech-companies-issue-loud-call-for-surveillance-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/07\/18\/tech-companies-issue-loud-call-for-surveillance-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Tech Companies Issue Loud Call For Surveillance Transparency<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/07\/18\/203288498\/tech-companies-issue-loud-call-for-surveillance-transparency\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8169 alignright\" alt=\"Tech Companies Issue Loud Call For Surveillance Transparency\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/130719_tech.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Apple, Google, Microsoft and a broad coalition of major tech companies are making a loud call for greater government disclosure of digital communications monitoring. In a letter out today, an alliance of 63 companies and groups are calling for dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts. This comes as the companies \u2013 and individual Americans \u2013 continue to grapple with recent revelations of a sweeping surveillance program led by the National Security Agency. The alliance, which also includes investors and trade organizations \u2013 asks for Internet and communications service providers to report national security-related requests with specificity. <a title=\"Tech Companies Issue Loud Call For Surveillance Transparency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/07\/18\/203288498\/tech-companies-issue-loud-call-for-surveillance-transparency\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA | Company: Apple, Google, Microsoft | Source: <a title=\"Tech Companies Issue Loud Call For Surveillance Transparency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/07\/18\/203288498\/tech-companies-issue-loud-call-for-surveillance-transparency\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple, Google, Microsoft and a broad coalition of major tech companies are making a loud call for greater government disclosure of digital communications monitoring. In a letter out today, an alliance of 63 companies and groups are calling for dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance efforts. This comes as the companies \u2013 and individual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,178,22],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-8168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-microsoft","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=8168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}