Tech + Lobbying + Surveillance

What’s happening? In 2013 8 tech companies formed Reform Government Surveillance to lobby for surveillance reforms by opposing the “dragnet collection of Americans’ private data”

Why is this important? we’re talking about Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and AOL, Amazon, Dropbox, Evernote, Snap and Zoom

How will this be important? A lobbying firm that runs the coalition decided that Evernote wasn’t active enough, so they removed its logo. The company says it’s still a member. This is a cautionary tale that tech companies, and tech media will notice tech changes.

Tech Crunch | Evernote quietly disappeared from an anti-surveillance lobbying group’s website