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Re:The PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Microsof... by uptown on Thursday July 18, 2013 @05:44PM (#6066757)
Because if Edward Snowden had not taken the actions he took, your employer would never have written this letter.
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Re:The PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Microsof... by packetslave on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:13PM (#6067183)
This is demonstrably not true:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/transparency-report-s...

Google has ALWAYS pushed for more transparency in government data requests. The government only allowed reporting on NSL's earlier this year (and even then only in aggregate). FISA actions were and are still a harder fight.

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Re:The PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Microsof... by DannyBee on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:55PM (#6067384)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/google-fights-nsl/
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