The White House has announced (via TIME) that President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with a long list of high-profile tech executives tomorrow to discuss the controversial rollout of the Healthcare.gov website as well as NSA surveillance programs that have recently come to light:
First on the list is Apple CEO Tim Cook who will also be joined by CEOs from Twitter, Netflix, Dropbox, Yahoo and many others.
Last month Apple participated in an open letter signed by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other tech companies expressing support for the USA Freedom Act that would limit the NSA’s ability to run its surveillance programs and keep them secret from the public. Another open letter to the President and congress was published earlier this month with support from Apple and other companies urging Washington to reform laws related to government surveillance.
The full list of tech executives scheduled to meet with Obama tomorrow is below:
· Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
· Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
· Chad Dickerson, CEO, Etsy
· Reed Hastings, Co-Founder & CEO, Netflix
· Drew Houston, Founder & CEO, Dropbox
· Marissa Mayer, President and CEO, Yahoo!
· Burke Norton, Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce
· Mark Pincus, Founder, Chief Product Officer & Chairman, Zynga
· Shervin Pishevar, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Sherpa Global
· Brian Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast
· Erika Rottenberg, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, LinkedIn
· Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
· Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
· Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft
· Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO, AT&T
