Yahoo’s Mayer Said to Warn of Web Balkanization in Spying
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Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer warned President Barack Obama the backlash over U.S. spying threatens to Balkanize the Internet, as countries adopt different standards to thwart surveillance, according to an industry official.
Mayer was among 15 technology company executives including Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook, Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt who met at the White House today to press the president to curb the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs.