Jun
07
Amid Prism Denials, Online Ad Companies Face Trust Gap
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Leave it to the Federal Government to make the online privacy debate seem, well, quaint.
On Friday the biggest internet players in the world — and some of the world’s biggest purveyors of data for online advertising — responded to reports that they are providing the National Security Agency unfettered access to their servers for intelligence and counterterrorism purposes under a program called Prism.
The companies implicated so far — including AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo — issued a variety of responses, ranging from categorial denials of the reports by The Guardian and The Washington Post to denying that the government has direct access to their servers.
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