Apple, Facebook, Google and many other major American companies are putting pressure on the American Congress to pass a law that would limit the ability of the federal agency NSA to monitor the communication methods used by users of various Internet services. The companies are trying to convince the current Senate to enact the law before the end of the year when the leadership of the Congress will be taken over by the Republican party, the vote on the new law is scheduled for November 18 and there are quite strong chances that it will pass.
If a final bill isn't reached this year, the process for passing legislation would begin over in January under a new Congress controlled by Republicans, many of whom support government surveillance programs... Members of the Consumer Electronics Association "have already lost contracts with foreign governments worth millions of dollars," in response to revelations about US spying, Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive officer of the group that represents Apple, Google and Microsoft, wrote in a letter sent to all senators yesterday.
The rush of companies comes to the bottom With the massive support the NSA has from Republicans and their installation in Congress in January, there is little chance that it will be passed. Separate from the ban on spying on Americans and more, the law would allow companies to release additional information from requests made by US government agencies to provide customer identity data, which the NSA, FBI, etc., for whatever reason, do not want can ed clear.
