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Why Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Corporations are Silent Over Internet Surveillance Debate in Congress

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Janet Scott
Why Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Corporations are Silent Over Internet Surveillance Debate in Congress

Be it Facebook Inc (FB.O), Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) or other such majorly known firms, every one of them was missing from this major debate.

This new internet surveillance law is supposed to protect customer data as per the sources familiar with the matter have quoted.

The pact has already been given billion dollar support and getting into this new pact may severely damage the same.

The section 702 that is a part of FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) allows National Security Agency (NSA) to collect details on the emails and other digital communications of the foreign citizens who are living abroad.

Although the law not only allows to collect the digital data about the foreigners but also grant the permission for collecting the data on the unknown number of Americans.

The matter of renewing this US surveillance law has got the support of Republican senators and the U.S. intelligence agencies too.

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