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We know from the Snowden leaks that there were direct data links between Google and the NSA. Despite their vehement denials and public outrage, I still find it
by 13415 8y ago
We know from the Snowden leaks that there were direct data links between Google and the NSA. Despite their vehement denials and public outrage, I still find it hard to believe that it was possible for the NSA to install such massive surveillance without some complicity from Google.
Technically this might have been possible without any Google involvement, I agree with that, but given past involvement of other companies like e.g. AT&T with the NSA, this seems kind of unlikely to me. It just seems more credible to assume that some people in the higher ranks of Google willfully complied, and I wouldn't be surprised if something similar still occurred.
- lern_too_spel 8y agoNothing in Snowden's leaked documents contradicted Google's statements. The New York Times reported the setup correctly from the start, and the rest of the news media picked up on it shortly thereafter. 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-... Your understanding of PRISM matches Greenwald's incorrect reporting, which was based on a high school dropout's misreading of some slides he found on the SharePoint system he administered. Greenwald could have gotten the story correct if he had bothered to run the documents by an expert first, but instead he made ridiculous errors like thinking that DITU is a government system running inside the companies' networks instead of the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit, whose court-ordered wiretaps PRISM actually accesses.
- 13415 8y agoThen again, Google's public statements might not be the best information source to check whether Google did something nefarious or not.