AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo have written and signed a letter to President Obama and Congress with five guiding privacy principles the coalition wants to see implemented: limiting governments' authority to collect users' information, oversight and accountability, transparency about government demands, respecting the free flow of information, and avoiding conflicts among governments.

"The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information.

While the undersigned companies understand that governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety and security, we strongly believe that current laws and practices need to be reformed.

Consistent with established global norms of free expression and privacy and with the goals of ensuring that government law enforcement and intelligence efforts are rule-bound, narrowly tailored, transparent, and subject to oversight, we hereby call on governments to endorse the following principles and enact reforms that would put these principles into action."

http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/technology/tech-giants-issue-call-for-limits-on-government-surveillance-of-users.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1386572495-zSN3SNsRPvb+aoziMInKZg&