500 of the worlds most notable writers slam NSA surveillance

500 of the worlds most notable writers slam NSA surveillance More than 500 of the world’s most notable authors have signed an open appeal calling for an end to the extreme surveillance of the NSA spying program as revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden .
The authors, five of which are Nobel prize winners, hail from 81 countries and include: Margaret Atwood, Orhan Pamuk, Ian McEwan, Gunter Grass, Michael Ondaatje, Kazou Ishiguro, Don DeLillo and Yann Martel. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/500-of-the-worlds-most-notable-writers-slam-nsa-surveillance-1.2458661