The WashPo has backed away [1] from the key claim of tech companies "knowingly" participating in PRISM. In addition, there's this paragraph that was added to th

The WashPo has backed away [1] from the key claim of tech companies "knowingly" participating in PRISM. In addition, there's this paragraph that was added to the article after publication on page 2: It is possible that the conflict between the PRISM slides and the company spokesmen is the result of imprecision on the part of the NSA author. In another classified report obtained by The Post, the arrangement is described as allowing “collection managers [to send] content tasking instructions directly to equipment installed at company- controlled locations,” rather than directly to company servers. I don't think slide 2 is relevant, though. The whole deck sounds like a presentation to senior govt officials who are not tech savvy at all, and is just introductory slide that reminds the audience, "The Internet is big and lots of the data flows through the US where we have legal powers." However, there are likely many more slides that were not been disclosed. Fair point about the drop box denial. [1] http://thenextweb.com/us/2013/06/07/wapost-backtracks-on-claim-tech-companies-participate-knowingly-in-prism-data-collection&#x2F http://thenextweb.com/us/2013/06/07/wapost-backtracks-on-cla...;