Google-Led Denials Leave Room for U.S. Web Surveillance
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Minutes after the Washington Post published a report detailing how the U.S. government tapped into the servers of nine companies to spy on communications, the denials began.
Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. led the charge, saying they don’t give the government access to servers where the data is kept. Some said yesterday they don’t hand over user information without a court order. Others said that they hadn’t even heard of the U.S. program, code-named PRISM.