Tech leaders meet with Obama over NSA spying

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Under fire from courts and allies over a vast US spying dragnet, President Barack Obama faced new heat Tuesday from Internet titans who fear the surveillance has crossed constitutional lines. Obama met bosses of tech giants Google, Apple, Netflix, Yahoo and Twitter at the White House for talks also expected to include an update on the problem-plagued website underpinning his health reform plan. The meeting came a day after a US court ruled that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone records was probably unconstitutional, in the first blow of a long legal tussle over the program. It also took place as Obama considers the findings of a panel he set up to recommend reform of US spy agency snooping in the wake of damaging revelations by fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.




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