Anti-surveillance tech coalition grows

Evernote is joining Facebook, Google, Microsoft and six other tech giants as the 10th member of the Reform Government Surveillance coalition. The other members of the coalition are AOL, Apple, Dropbox, LindedIn, Twitter and Yahoo.

The coalition was formally launched in December, in the wake of revelations that the National Security Agency was snooping on the online communications of people around the world. The tech coalition has hired lobbyists to push Congress to support the USA Freedom Act, an NSA reform bill that would end the agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records. The bill is the subject of negotiations in the Senate, after the House passed a version earlier this year that many said was too watered down.