Microsoft's Apple Launches End of Year to Suppress Spy

The Consumer Electronics Association, which represents Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, is actively lobbying and hopes that before the Republican Party controls the US Congress, it calls on the Senate to limit the eavesdropping of the National Security Agency (NSA).

The Consumer Electronics Association of the United States has assembled a large number of Internet and technology companies, and Google and Twitter are among them. The organization supported the Senate’s vote on November 18th, passing a bill to prohibit NSA from collecting large amounts of emails and other electronic communications from users of these technology companies.

Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association of the United States, said that due to the influence of American espionage activities, many members of the organization have already lost millions of U.S. dollars worth of overseas government contracts.

Time is very tight. If the final bill cannot be reached this year, the legislative process will be postponed until next January, when the Congress will be controlled by the Republican Party. Many members of the party support the government's monitoring of the project.

U.S. Internet and technology companies are facing local and international pressure. According to Forrester Research, a US market research firm, the total amount of business they lost reached US$180 billion.