Or they are, you know, lying.
I don’t buy it.
"President Obama toasts a group of Silicon Valley executives, including Google Chairman Eric Schmidt (far left), Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers (fourth from left), Steve Jobs (to left of Obama), Mark Zuckerberg (right of Obama) and Larry Ellison (directly across from Obama). (White House photo)"
I think there's a reason he had meetings with these people early on in his first term (and he's visited them since then too).
You know, with all this latest privacy spying revelation, I have pretty much quit believing anyone.
That’s where I start.
Then with about 3 proofs, I’ll start paying attention.
Just watched Bourne Legacy. It was supposed latest spy capability. It looked like kindergarten compared to latest news ‘leaks’.
GOOGLE denies involvement:
"First, we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. government does not have direct access or a “back door” to the information stored in our data centers. We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday."
Notice both are VERY SIMILAR?
http://twitchy.com/2013/06/07/facebook-google-deny-any-knowledge-of-prism-in-eerily-similar-statements/
They may be telling the truth. The feds probably just tapped the fiber lines going to these companies data centers. Much easier and only requires the cooperation of the telco’s, which they already have.
Why did they bother? No one is going to believe them and they know it.
They aren’t mining data for PRISM; they own the data and they allow PRISM to mine it (via a rather extended interpretation of the terms of use on their sites).
Yes and I believe “Social Network” was a real movie about history. /sarcasm
Of COURSE they don't give the "government" "direct" access to their "servers". They give governent or someone else either direct or indirect access to the user data that they want. This is infuriating!
They just know NOTHING!
Just access to the megadata. Sic.
Yeah right, google has been in bed with Obama since before day one of his occupation of the White House.
I watched in mounting horror and alarm as they systematically and deliberately “disappeared” over a half million hits on image searches for “obama birth certificate” over a three day period in mid-July 2007.
True they didn’t “join”, the government shows up & says we are going to do X & if you say anything about it in any way we the enforcement arm of the Obama junta will make sure you get to take showers in jail for a long time.
They are probably not lying ... just omitting relevant facts. The direct interfaces to their mainframes are by a subcontractor (subcontracted to guess who) and not by NSA.
Then why would the government be launching a criminal investigation to find the leaker who leaked information about a program that never existed?