{"id":9098,"date":"2013-07-20T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T14:36:04","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9098","title":{"rendered":"BLT: U.S. Tech Companies Request Data on NSA Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLT: <a href=\"http:\/\/legaltimes.typepad.com\/blt\/2013\/07\/us-tech-companies-request-data-on-nsa-surveillance.html\">U.S. Tech Companies Request Data on NSA Surveillance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., and more than a dozen other tech companies have joined forces with civil liberties groups and investment firms in a push to uncloak U.S. government surveillance efforts, following leaks last month about National Security Agency data gathering.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter [PDF] sent Thursday to President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials, the 64-member coalition wrote that the government should permit Internet, telephone, and web-based service providers to publicly report statistics about national security-related requests. The alliance, organized by the Washington-based nonprofit Center for Democracy &amp; Technology, said details about the extent to which the government deploys its national security powers is important to U.S. citizens and international users of U.S.-based digital service providers as they try to assess the utilization of online surveillance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}