Eight of the world’s leading technology firms including Google, Apple and Twitter have formed an alliance calling for changes to US government surveillance.<br /><br />In a letter to Washington the companies argue that current surveillance practice undermines the freedom of the people.<br /><br />It follows recent leaks about the extent of government “snooping” which have revealed that the collection of phone records, the tapping fibre-optic cables that carry global communications and the hacking of networks have been accepted practice. <br /><br />The firms think that surveillance should be controlled.
