Google, Facebook condemn spying

SAN FRANCISCO: Google chief Larry Page and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg condemned online spying Friday and called for governments to be more revealing about snooping on the Internet.

“We understand that the US and other governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety—including sometimes by using surveillance,” Google chief and co-founder Larry Page said in a blog post. “But the level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish.”