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Re:Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security R... by jarek on Friday June 14, 2013 @09:54PM (#5883551)
Perhaps I should defer to Jean Chretien... "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."

Honestly though - I don't know. It's why I asked.

Possibly they can't, because how do you prove you're not lying other than saying you're not lying? It's not like there's some sort of an unshakable, absolute truth hardware log that details every single data access.

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Re:Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security R... by marcosdumay on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:07PM (#5885556)
> how do you prove you're not lying other than saying you're not lying?

There is something called "evidence" used exctly at those circunstances.

Of course, I have no idea what kind of evidence those companies or the US government have, they are not telling anybody. And that is evidence that they are lying.

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