Apple, Google, Facebook, AOL, Yahoo! si Microsoft are just a few of the American companies that they published an open letter showing his support for a law proposing to restrict the rights of the federal agency NSA. The law bears the name United States Freedom Act and is supported by two American senators, promoting the idea of restricting the rights of those from the NSA to collect any kind of information from the Internet, allowing US IT companies to present in a much more transparent way the data they collect from users.
As companies whose services are used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, we welcome the debate about how to protect both national security and privacy interests and we applaud the sponsors of the USA Freedom Act for making an important contribution to this discussion. Transparency is a critical first step to an informed public debate, but it is clear that more needs to be done. Our companies believe that government surveillance practices should also be reformed to include substantial enhancements to privacy protections and appropriate oversight and accountability mechanisms for those programs.
All the companies stated that they were forced by the NSA not to disclose the number of requests received from the agency to view user data, now asking to be given the opportunity to make public all requests received for providing data to the agency. Practically at the moment, the NSA monitors almost all internet traffic in the US and collects all kinds of data from users, asking American companies to provide them with all kinds of information about their customers, forcing them to comply with their requests.
