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Didnt all the companies lie about working with the NSA before the Snowden revelations?
by ProAm 8y ago
Didnt all the companies lie about working with the NSA before the Snowden revelations?
- lern_too_spel 8y agoNo. Snowden's documents show they worked with the FBI, which we already knew and the companies have always admitted to.
- ProAm 8y agoThis article shows different: "Blanket denials from Microsoft, Google, and Facebook -- and efforts to clear their names -- are the opposite of what AT&T and Verizon did in response to reports saying they opened their systems to the National Security Agency. " [1] [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-surveillance-retrospective-at-t-verizon-never-denied-it/ https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-surveillance-retrospective-at-...
- lern_too_spel 8y agoAs I said in my earlier post, those denials are accurate according to Snowden's documents. They integrated with the FBI to process court ordered user data requests. They obviously would have no knowledge of a downstream NSA data processing system or its code name. Your article itself says that the initial reporting was incorrect and links to https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-to-tech-companies/ https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-... which correctly explains how PRISM is an NSA system that processes court ordered electronic wiretaps obtained by the FBI.
- throwaway2048 8y agoThis is completely untrue, snowden documents showed full cooperation from many companies with the NSA (not FBI) PRISM program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#Companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#C...
- lern_too_spel 8y agoSnowden's documents show otherwise. Here is the relevant document itself: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/images/prism-slide-7.jpg http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...