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Facebook's response is the quintessential non-denial denial. Deny doing something you weren't actually accused of doing, but that sounds enough like it, so that
by rosser 13y ago
Facebook's response is the quintessential non-denial denial. Deny doing something you weren't actually accused of doing, but that sounds enough like it, so that you don't have to deny doing the thing you actually did.
- foobarqux 13y agoThe statements released by the companies (especially Apple and Facebook) are similar enough that they may be crafted talking points supplied by the government.
- kvb 13y agoAnd this one http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jun13/06-06statement.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jun13/06-06st...?
- foobarqux 13y agoYou're right that one is distinct and specifically says that they only release individual customer data. Since weasel wording is pretty prevalent on this topic I would note that they could still run NSA algorithms on the dataset and return the individuals that are "hits".
- asperous 13y ago> If the government has a broader voluntary national security program Why was the word voluntary in there?
- adventured 13y agoThe voluntary keyword completely invalidates that as a reference. If the program is not voluntary - and there's no way in hell that it was - then what Microsoft just said doesn't even apply to this discussion.
- chaostheory 13y agoYes, they deny giving them direct access to their servers, but they admit that they will give them user data when it's requested. The title is pretty misleading. Facebook isn't denying anything.