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These denials remind me of the vehement denials the big tech companies gave when the Snowden leaks came out. Did they turn out to be false? https://googleblog.

• mercutio2 8y ago
  No. The denials did not turn out to be false. Conspiracy theorists aside, the main new thing that came out of the Snowden revelations was that Google’s physical security for data-center-to-data-center traffic was compromised by the NSA, which Google never denied, and responded by hardening server to server traffic.
• clubm8 8y ago
  >These denials remind me of the vehement denials the big tech companies gave when the Snowden leaks came out. Did they turn out to be false? At what point do such denials constitute a deceptive trade practive, enabling the Federal Trade Commission to bring action? You can't lie in a privacy policy, or a TV commercial. Where is the line?
  • wstuartcl 8y ago
    ... It almost makes you wonder if there is a process for ensuring companies comply with secret investigations and are forced to act publicly and privately as if they have never happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...