Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program (Published 2013)A Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Google says it scrutinizes each government request and notifies users if it is allowed.Credit...Connie Zhou/Google, via Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world’s largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled
