Technology giants battled to maintain their credibility on privacy issues over the weekend as further details emerged of their co-operation with US spy agencies.
Apple, Facebook and Google issued strongly-worded denials that they had knowingly participated in Prism, a top-secret system at the National Security Agency that collects emails, documents, photos and other material for agents to review.
All said that they did not allow the government direct access to their systems and had never heard of the Prism programme. Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, called press reports about Prism "outrageous".
But after the publication by the Guardian of another slide from a top-secret NSA presentation and reports in the Washington Post and the New York Times, it was becoming clear that some major technology companies have, at the very least, taken steps to make it easier for intelligence agencies to access the information they want.
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According to the New York Times, some companies, including Google and Facebook, discussed setting up secure online "rooms" where requested information could be sent and accessed by the NSA. Such systems would allow them to dispute the idea of direct access.
According to a report in the Washington Post on Sunday, Prism was created after extensive negotiations between the tech companies and federal authorities "who had pressed for easier access to data they were entitled to under previous orders granted by the secret Fisa court". Full story...
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Apple, Facebook and Google issued strongly-worded denials that they had knowingly participated in Prism, a top-secret system at the National Security Agency that collects emails, documents, photos and other material for agents to review.
All said that they did not allow the government direct access to their systems and had never heard of the Prism programme. Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, called press reports about Prism "outrageous".
But after the publication by the Guardian of another slide from a top-secret NSA presentation and reports in the Washington Post and the New York Times, it was becoming clear that some major technology companies have, at the very least, taken steps to make it easier for intelligence agencies to access the information they want.
(...)
According to the New York Times, some companies, including Google and Facebook, discussed setting up secure online "rooms" where requested information could be sent and accessed by the NSA. Such systems would allow them to dispute the idea of direct access.
According to a report in the Washington Post on Sunday, Prism was created after extensive negotiations between the tech companies and federal authorities "who had pressed for easier access to data they were entitled to under previous orders granted by the secret Fisa court". Full story...
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