Civil liberties groups pressure tech companies to take ‘security pledge’

The security pledge lists commitments tech companies must make to ‘ensure the internet is used to expand democracy, not undermine it’.Leading US privacy, civil liberties and human rights organizations launched a campaign on Monday calling on tech companies to take concrete steps to protect their users in the wake of revelations about the harvesting and manipulation of Facebook data conducted by Cambridge Analytica.In an open letter to the tech companies, the group, which includes the