No talk of changing NSA spy tactics at meeting of new surveillance review panel - report

Attendees said the tech representatives -- only identified in the meeting by their companies and not their names, Meinrath said -- also expressed being disturbed by the NSA’s undermining of encryption standards around the web.

"There was one discussion about how the NSA has been involved in the global encryption community, [to] develop better standards. The NSA won't be welcomed anymore in these conversations," Atkinson said of what seemed to be a new distrust coming from the companies.

Meinrath said once the conversation seemed to steer toward talk of surveillance reform, attendees and panel members hesitated to move forward, suggesting a classified meeting.

Some Internet firms have filed legal action in efforts to share more information about the nature of their work with the US government. Meinrath said they wished to express to the public the amount of coercion involved in the spying programs. 

source rt.com