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#136820 10-Dec-2013 00:20
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AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo have banded together with a request to governments, particularly the USA government to reform spying laws and activities.

http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/

This is going to get big, fast. Especially how prominent these companies are in everyones online lives.

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  #948385 10-Dec-2013 00:50
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And their lobbying budgets cannot be insubstantial.



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  #948408 10-Dec-2013 07:21
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when the elephants fight the mice get caught in the middle

got nothing to do with me as a singleton

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  #948418 10-Dec-2013 07:35
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The same companies who did nothing before... Now talking because they want CUSTOMERS.





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  #948658 10-Dec-2013 13:01
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Facebook. Privacy. Lol.

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