Web giants back mass protest plans over NSA surveillance revelations

Some of the web's biggest names have reportedly backed the mass protests planned for Thursday, against US led NSA's secret surveillance programmes which were revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Websites like Reddit, Mozilla, and Wordpress are amongst others who have called on the US government to end the 'unconstitutional surveillance', BBC reports.

According to the reports, almost 100 events have been planned across US and their interactive map detailing their locations has been published.

Many influential websites have planned to display messages of protest on their homepages co-ordinated by a group called the Internet Defence League (IDL).

Earlier Wikipedia, Google and others went 'dark', or put black boxes over parts of their pages in order to show their disagreement with proposed anti-piracy measures being discussed by US lawmakers.

The report said that Mozilla has launched 'stopwatching.us', a petition calling for full disclosure of the US' 'spying' programmes which has already garnered 536,559 signatures and has dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei as one of the petition's backers.

The mass protests demanding the details about US surveillance comes in light of the incident when a top US intelligence official told Congress in March that the NSA did not have a policy of gathering data on millions of Americans.