The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is slated to meet with Internet and telecommunications companies to determine what data and access to company servers they’ve provided to the U.S. government, Bloomberg reports. The move comes after the PCLOB held a hearing last week with privacy experts and former government officials. “It’s valuable to hear company perspectives on how the programs operate,” said PCLOB Chairman David Medine. “We want to hear both sides of it. We want to hear the government side, but we also want to hear the private-sector side.” Also, the PCLOB is getting reinforcements: Sharon Bradford Franklin is leaving The Constitution Project to join the board as executive director, The Hill reports. Meanwhile, a coalition of Internet companies and civil liberties groups are calling on the Obama administration and Congress to expand the disclosure of U.S. government surveillance programs.
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