Google, Facebook deny compromising personal data
June 08, 2013  17:19

Amidst an uproar in the US over the issue of government secretly tracking information on foreigners from Internet firms, Google and Facebook have categorically denied their participation in such a project.  

 

Both the US-based technology giants said that their organisations were not aware about the existence of such a programme -- code-named PRISM -- until it hit national and international headlines.  

 

In a post on his profile on Facebook yesterday, its founder Mark Zuckerberg said: "Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. "We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it aggressively. We hadn't even heard of PRISM before yesterday."   Similarly, Google Co-founder and CEO Larry Page and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond in a post on the search giant's official blog said: "First, we have not joined any program that would give the US government or any other government direct access to our servers. "

 

Indeed, the US government does not have direct access or a 'back door' to the information stored in our data centers. We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday."  

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