Facebook to AOL Concern on NSA Data Seen Deferred to Obama Panel
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President Barack Obama tomorrow will create a panel to examine how data-collection efforts like the National Security Agency’s spy programs affect Internet companies and privacy rights, said two people familiar with White House deliberations.
Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc. and Facebook Inc. have lobbied Obama to be able to disclose details about government orders for customer data and the number of user accounts affected. It’s unclear if Obama will grant that request. Both people asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to discuss the decisions.