What people don't see, but someone is closer, is that all these so called high-tech companies (not all , but Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo are emblematic ), have one thing in common: Huge databases with private people's data, high capacity of monitoring activities over internet ,and huge potential of influence for the masses. The only two companies that have (apparently) nothing to do with that are Genentech and Westly Group.
I bet that people still don't give a fart about the fact that Apple can have access to all the information in their mighty iPhone.
Today all the shizznizz you do in internet are interconnected, if u connect all the account that you have, and lots of time i see on FB that someone shop o X site X thing and than read on scribd that other thing and is fav..on YT some crap video, and so on..... And that person have no clue about these "sharing". Lots of people have no clue of how to use properly the internet,on how to defend privacy.
I can tell that this meeting is not about technology, is about information.. And is not Obama, or right or left..is government, corporate power, things like that. Once Obama gone , will come another one to do the interest of big money.