President Obama was scheduled to meet with technology executives at the White House Friday afternoon amid fears that National Security Agency spying is undermining one of the nation’s most vital industries, especially in lucrative overseas markets.
The global backlash to revelations about NSA surveillance has become a top concern for high-tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft, which are battling allegations that American firms are more vulnerable to U.S. government spying and pay insufficient attention to consumer privacy.
Mr. Zuckerberg last week said he called Mr. Obama to express frustration about "the damage the government is creating for all of our future," according to a post on his Facebook page.
In the post, Mr. Zuckerberg said for the Internet to work it must remain secure. "That is why I've been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the U.S. government," he wrote. "When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government."
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