Google, Facebook, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM

Re:Google, Facebook, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation ... by dragonwriter on Friday June 07, 2013 @01:06AM (#5837338)

I'd be more likely to believe that the substance of the story wasn't true if they denied the substance (the scope of information provided), rather than peripheral inferences made in the story about the procedure and mechanics by which the information gets to the NSA.

Given the actual denials, I will assume that, at a minimum, everything about the story that they didn't deny -- that is, the scope of the customer data which has been provided by those providers to the NSA -- is implicitly confirmed, and that the (mostly irrelevant) details they have denied are in doubt.

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Re:Google, Facebook, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation ... by Terretta on Friday June 07, 2013 @06:44AM (#5838173)

What's wrong with the media in the U.S. is that they let these finely parsed denials stand, reporting them verbatim or worse summarizing as "the companies deny it".

We need press that is capable of communicating the grey areas as you did in your top comment here, ideally in a way the masses can grok.

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