Google, Facebook and Microsoft, three of the tech giants accused of opening their servers to the US authorities as part of a secret surveillance program, have appealed to the US government to let them disclose the requests they receive to pass on user data.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft, three of the tech giants accused of opening their servers to the US authorities as part of a secret surveillance program, have appealed to the US government to let them disclose the requests they receive to pass on user data.  The companies have all hotly denied giving the National Security Agency "back-door" access to their clients' personal information, and now say that they want greater transparency at the front door, too. We have nothing to hide, they insist. Does the government?



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