Tech Leaders and Obama Find Shared Problem: Fading Public Trust --- WASHINGTON — President Obama met with top technology industry executives on Tuesday to discuss two seemingly distinct controversies: a faulty health care website, and the digital surveillance practices of the National Security Agency. -- The meeting started with an announcement by Mr. Obama that he was reaching into the ranks of Microsoft, the software giant, to select Kurt DelBene as the next person to run HealthCare.gov. But the focus quickly turned from the health care site to the concerns of Apple, Microsoft, Google and other technology companies about the spying efforts, the latest illustration of the strained relationship between an industry and a White House that had long been close. -- For months, leading technology companies have been buffeted by revelations about government spying on their customers’ data, which they believe are undermining confidence in their services. The Obama administration has been blasted for the botched rollout of the health site, which prevented many people from signing up for health insurance in the first weeks of the site’s introduction, but seem to have been largely repaired since then. -- The meeting on Tuesday brought those two issues together into a common forum, and at least partly in the public eye. - More, NYTimes, at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/us/politics/as-tech-industry-leaders-meet-with-obama-nsa-ruling-looms-large.html