Posted on 06/07/2013 9:17:14 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the worlds largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit.
Twitter declined to make it easier for the government. But other companies were more compliant, according to people briefed on the negotiations. They opened discussions with national security officials about developing technical methods to more efficiently and securely share the personal data of foreign users in response to lawful government requests. And in some cases, they changed their computer systems to do so.
The negotiations shed a light on how Internet companies, increasingly at the center of peoples personal lives, interact with the spy agencies that look to their vast trove of information e-mails, videos, online chats, photos and search queries for intelligence. They illustrate how intricately the government and tech companies work together, and the depth of their behind-the-scenes transactions.
The companies that negotiated with the government include Google, which owns YouTube; Microsoft, which owns Hotmail and Skype; Yahoo; Facebook; AOL; Apple; and Paltalk, according to one of the people briefed on the discussions. The companies were legally required to share the data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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In at least two cases, at Google and Facebook, one of the plans discussed was to build separate, secure portals, like a digital version of the secure physical rooms that have long existed for classified information, in some instances on company servers. Through these online rooms, the government would request data, companies would deposit it and the government would retrieve it, people briefed on the discussions said.
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1) They don't give direct access to their servers, but they put it in a mailbox and give the key to the NSA -- big difference, right?
2) While they claim that they are only answering to proper government requests, they cannot acknowledge any FISA request, so the statement is a red herring.
The true story about PRISM
The “mailbox” type of access mimics the way the FBI (and presumably NSA) were allowed to access telco call data on switches back in the 90’s. The government said “we have a law requiring you to provide us with an interface” so that SS7 switches could effectively have call tracings and tapping from remote digital links.
WE THE PEOPLE should have said, “Well, Fedboy, WE have a Constitution, and specifically a Fourth Amendment which trumps your so-called “law”. Oh and by the way, you (used to) work for US, and you are now FIRED”.
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It’s the WWW so the world isn’t going to be very happy. I’m guessing it was a deliberate leakage by the administration to cause global disruption and if it doesn’t they’ll make ensure it does, the end-game being to shut down the internet.
Here’s what Obama had to say in 2007 about Warrant-less Wiretaps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B6fnfVJzZT4
Look these 1960s Marxist-Alinsky New Left campus brats and their ideological issue, arguably the Establishment, see us as their main enemy. It is us that they watch.
They vet the enemy and it is us.
That’s a nice little internet company you got there. Be a shame if something bad was to happen to it.
"You are either with ME, or against ME."
"Seriously dangerous times ahead. Deadly times. War, and censorship under the color of authority and under the pretext of of national security"
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Yeah, like be investigated by the IRS or broken apart...
HAHAHAHAHA
Well, that doesn't make it right, and I'm still torqued about THIS...when Republicans had a chance to end it but instead broke caucus members arms forcing them to vote for renewal, including Bachmann.
GOP struggles for PATRIOT Act votes
"House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered a stern warning to his fellow lawmakers in a closed conference meeting Wednesday at the Capitol Hill Club: Dont you dare vote no unless you attend Muellers briefing and ask your questions."
I think you made the mistake of still believing we live in a free nation
Nowadays, if you stand in their way you'll get SWATed and have drugs/childporn "dropped" in your house. If they really don't like you, they'll just shoot you and plant a knife in your hand. Or maybe you'll have a heart attack at 40.
"S*** happens" "some live some die" "if you don't trust us, there's going to be problems" "I knew nothing and it was all a long time ago" "what difference does it make?"
Generally “WE THE PEOPLE” have re-elected federal level incumbents at a 90+% rate for decades. Most certainly a large percentage of people complaining about govt. should look in a mirror. Dems & Pubs are 2 wings of one party quarreling over who gets the slightly larger piece of the pie.
We need to pick one of these companies and begin a brutal boycott.
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