US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 6, 2013 @12:11PM from the open-book dept.

Rick Zeman writes "Hot on the heels of Verizon's massive data dump to NSA comes news of 'PRISM' where The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. This program, established in 2007, includes major companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook...and more."

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Re:Is I also said on Ars... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-06 12:47 · Score: 0, Troll

And what would you expect them to say? IT WAS A SECRET SPYING PROGRAM! Of course, if they were complicit in wholesale spying on Americans domestically, they are going to officially deny knowledge of it. Hell, the PR drones issuing the statements ACTUALLY BELIEVE their respective companies weren't spying on people for the government. You act like their denial actually proves something. If any company actually admitted to it, I'd have more respect for them.