      2. Oversight and Accountability   3. Transparency About
Government Demands   4. Respecting the Free Flow of Information
The group’s site also includes an open letter to government
officials, which chides the government for overstepping its
constitutional limitations and violating the rights of the
companies’ users. The letter points out that the group complies
with all legal requests for information that are “reasonable in
scope,” and has historically “pushed back” against unreasonable
requests.  Finally, the letter requests that the United States
ensure that future surveillance be confined by law and placed
under the oversight of independent parties.  Dear Mr. President
and Members of Congress,       Whether the U.S. government will
take the group’s concerns to heart and take meaningful steps to
reform its spying tactics is anyone’s guess, but it seems that
for the first time a concerted effort is being made by the tech
industry to let the government know exactly where they stand on
the issue of surve