Major tech companies, including Apple, Google and Facebook Inc said on Thursday that they did not provide any government agency "direct access" to their server, contrary to the Washington Post, "the report that they have been granted this class to access the next disaggregated data collection plan.
The newspaper reported that the U.S. National Security Agency and the FBI's "attack nine leading U.S. Internet company" directly into the central server is called PRISM through a secret plan, and extract large amounts of data, including audio, video, photos, e-mail , log files and connections.
Named nine companies, including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google the company and joined secret plan.
Internet's largest search provider, Google, said that, despite previous reports that it had forged a "backdoor" for the government, it has never provided any access to user data.
Microsoft said it does not actively participate in any government data collection, only meet "specific account or identifier request orders."
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling (Steve Dowling), said: "We have never heard of PRISM". "We do not provide any direct government agencies access to our servers, any government agency requirements of the customer data must get a court order."
When asked whether Apple joined the NSA-FBI data collection procedures, Apple declined to comment beyond its brief statement.
"Washington Post" reported that Apple has held more than five years after the first prism enlisted corporate partners, in May 2007 as "unexplained."
Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan said in a statement: "We do not provide any direct access to Facebook governmental organizations server." "When Facebook was asked to provide information or for specific personal information, we carefully examine any such request to comply with all applicable laws, limited by law to provide information."
Yahoo said in a statement that it "attaches great importance to the user's privacy, we do not provide the Government with direct access to our servers, systems or networks."
 
 



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