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In reply to the discussion: PRISM and Stellar Wind Programs [View all]KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)to PRISM is not what many have made it mean
. because Greenwald is an idiot and either didn't fact check or deliberately lied.
From the same article:
"We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order," a company spokesperson said in a statement.
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Google and Facebook also denied providing direct access to their servers and said they disclose user data only after careful scrutiny and in accordance with the law.
"We do not provide any government organization with direct access to Facebook servers," said a Facebook spokesperson. "When Facebook is asked for data or information about specific individuals, we carefully scrutinize any such request for compliance with all applicable laws and provide information only to the extent required by la