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Tech Firms Unite to Demand Location and Cloud Services Privacy Reform

Posted on March 30, 2010

Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Salesforce.com, AOL, Intel, Loopt and numerous advocacy groups are asking the U.S. Congress to update its electronic privacy legislation in order to address new forms of surveillance and data collecting. The so-called Digital Due Process coalition members say they want to defend themselves and their users from forced sharing of their email, hosted documents and mobile location tracking.The law in question is the Electroni...

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