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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by akerro on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:26AM (#11768782)
Heh that's a funny thing to say. I remember when one of the first Snowdens revelations came up, Larry Page wrote a blog post on official Google blog: https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/what.html saying they don't cooparate with NSA.

The same week we were provided documents signed by NSA/CIA officials claiming that Google is not even forced to do it, they provided extra interface for NSA so they can grab data whenever they want: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/12/google-prism-...

Some recent emails with Clinton showed that top Google employers helped with surveillance in Arab countries a couple of years ago, more journalists described that Google is in relationship with NSA. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/6610/20140507/google-cahoo...

Facebook was accused of working FOR NSA to spy on Belgium: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/21/facebook-...

One of Facebook financial founders was PayPal CEO who... supports global surveillance by NSA http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-and-facebook-work-together/...

Question: why should I trust what you say?

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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by dTal on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @08:44AM (#11769353)
Hmm, but Larry Page is specifically addressing PRISM. And your Wired link agrees with him. And from what I remember, it wasn't so much "documents signed by NSA/CIA officials" as "an internal powerpoint slide".

Didn't the NSA hack Google's own internal fiber? Why would they need to do that if they had the keys to the kingdom anyway?

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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by kyrra on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:35PM (#11772449)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-en...

Yes, google started encrypting the intra-datacenter traffic once it learned what the NSA was doing.

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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by sbw1 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:14AM (#11770345)
Your techtimes link doesn't have anything about Arab countries (or Clinton for that matter), the only fact in there is that Google and others were invited to an NSA talk about "security" in 2011.
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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by akerro on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:22AM (#11770412)
Sorry, missed it http://thefreethoughtproject.com/clinton-emails-expose-googl...

This issue was quite hot on HN a month ago.

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