European Union officials are pressing big U.S. tech companies to free up surveillance access to their user data in the wake of last month’s attacks in Paris, marking a continued shift in the debate over privacy and security within the bloc. Firms including Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were meeting with a raft of government and law-enforcement officials from the EU and member states including France to discuss deepening their cooperation in fighting terrorism, people familiar with the meetings said.
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