US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists
The senior lawyer for the National Security Agency stated unequivocally on Wednesday that US technology companies were fully aware of the surveillance agency’s widespread collection of data, contradicting month of angry denials from the firms.
Rajesh De, the NSA general counsel, said all communications content and associated metadata harvested by the NSA under a 2008 surveillance law occurred with the knowledge of the companies – both for the internet collection program known as Prism and for the so-called “upstream” collection of communications moving across the internet.
US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists | World news | theguardian.com
Yeah, as someone here said (if I can find it), you couldn't have made all this up....but maybe George Orwell did, at that time.@ wrote:
Wow, shots fired across the bow!
All in all, Data 'Control', manipulation etc. would appear to be the New World Power.
What they always say - false claim.@ wrote:
I wonder what the tech companies are going to say in return.
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