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NSA chief: We do not 'unilaterally' obtain data from Google, Facebook, Microsoft servers
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Verizon, and Apple might breathe a little easier today. Their denials of working with the NSA's PRISM program to turn over huge quantities of customer data over to the secretive U.S. intelligence agency just got a little bit more credible today thanks to testimony from NSA Director General Keith Alexander."The U.S. government does not unilaterally obtain information from the servers of U.S. companies," Alexander said. "Rather, the U.S. companies are compelled to provide these records by U.S. law using methods that are in strict compliance with that law." Unfortunately, Alexander also referred to the companies as "our industry partners." Other Google, Facecrook, AOL, Verizon, and Apple government partners include the IRS and possibly Homeland Security. 1984 - The Ministry of Truth -- Minitrue, in Newspeak -- was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-19 |
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