Executives of America’s largest tech industries are meeting with President Barack Obama, Friday afternoon, to discuss the government’s mishandling of private information acquired through the National Security Agency’s surveillance program.
According to Politico, while the full list of those attending the meeting went undisclosed by the Obama administration, sources revealed that among those present are Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive of Facebook, and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. The meeting will cover “issues of privacy, technology, and intelligence,” according to a White House official.
The Wall Street Journal notes that the meeting takes place days after Zuckerberg expressed his concerns on internet security during a recent phone call with the president and a passionate post on Facebook. Efforts thus far from the government include collaboration between the House intelligence committee and NSA on reworking phone data searches without collecting “the whole haystack” of information.
Zuckerberg writes, “So it's up to us -- all of us -- to build the internet we want. Together, we can build a space that is greater and a more important part of the world than anything we have today.”
Obama set a March 28 deadline for Justice Department and NSA recommendations on reorganizing the data collection program.
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