Prism: Google and Facebook belie controls on users

Google and Facebook are there and to reject the accusations that the two giants would have been an active part of the secret program to control the Web in the USA.

No relationship with Prism, or with the scandal which has already invested the administration of Barack Obama and other leading companies in the computer industry, such as Verizon.

The latter, according to an order made public secret from The Guardian, it would be obliged to hand over phone records of millions of users on American soil at the National Security Agency.

Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg do not use mincing words and write them directly to their users by using virtual channels at their disposal.

Google is the same for Larry Page to clarify the situation by posting on the official blog a letter written jointly with David Drummond, head of the legal department of the company.

'Bigg has not joined any program that gives direct access to our servers to the government or non-governmental bodies. - Page begins - In addition, the U.S. government has no direct access or through a "back door" to the information maintained in Our data centers. We never heard of the program Prism until yesterday. "

For Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg on his public profile a letter in which he states that "Facebook is not part and has never been part of any program to provide the U.S. government or other governments direct access to our servers."

Mai - Zuckerberg continues - we have not received any request or court order by any agency of the Government of masses of information or metadata. "

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Despite the denials of the two giants of the internet, the charges keep coming, including the New York Times that there have been meetings and agreements between the secret services and representatives of Google, Facebook, AOL and Apple.

The story reopens a wound never closed, or that derived from the eternal debate about Big Data (read), or the data of millions of surfers and users of the Internet, which are included on the web and billions exchange of information, sometimes shared. Information that becomes a bargaining chip or which is used by governments and agencies around the world to maintain some sort of management or at least control of the web.


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