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The President getting on national television and acknowledging that the program exists is a pretty big shred of evidence.
by mullingitover 13y ago
The President getting on national television and acknowledging that the program exists is a pretty big shred of evidence.
- unreal37 13y agoPRISM can exist, AND they cannot have direct access to Google data. Both can be true. There is another vector of privacy leakage here - there are also the ISPs, who I am pretty sure work alongside the government in a majorly secretive way.
- deelowe 13y agoHe said nothing about Google, which is the topic of the OP.
- mullingitover 13y agoIn case you missed it, this is the program he acknowledged - Note the three Google products whose logos feature prominently in the leaked doc: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-n...
- deelowe 13y agoI missed the pictures of the slides. That said, there are ways to target these services without involving the companies directly. Up to and including espionage itself.
- mullingitover 13y agoOne of the earlier articles discussed the government's concerns about keeping the program secret, lest they lose the cooperation of their private sector partners. That isn't a concern that they'd have if they were implementing the program through espionage.