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Under Fire Obama Meets Internet Chieftains Over Spying

Obama met bosses of tech giants Google, Apple, Netflix, Yahoo and Twitter at the White House for talks on internet spying and the Healthcare.gov website.

Via AFP:

Bosses from Internet giants including Twitter and Facebook Tuesday pressed President Barack Obama for reforms of US spy agency snooping, adding to rising heat from the courts and American allies.

Obama met a group of the country's most iconic Silicon Valley firms and spent two hours discussing the National Security Agency's clandestine electronic data mining operation, known as PRISM, a participant in the meeting said.

The Internet company bosses fear that NSA operations have crossed constitutional lines and infringe the privacy of their customers and users in the United States and abr...

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