Their Dragonfly project was going to be providing this kind of surveillance to the Chinese government until Googlers (indeterminately) put a stop to it?
https://theintercept.com/collections/google-dragonfly-china/
"Facebook, Google, Apple, and six other leading online services have all gone on record as having given their customers’ data to the NSA, as legally required by the “PRISM” program. Data shared includes emails, messages, and documents."
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/8-ways-the-nsa-spies-on-you/
"MUSCULAR and TURMOIL – Headed by the GCHQ with help from the NSA, these programs collect data (thought to be twice as much as PRISM) indiscriminately from Google and Yahoo internal data networks and share it with the NSA, who then scan it for anything ‘suspect’. Even though the data from Google and Yahoo are supposed to be encrypted, it’s intercepted during internal transfers, during which time it’s not encrypted at all."
"XKeyscore – Run by the NSA but shared with all Five Eyes nations as well as Japan, Germany and Sweden, XKeyscore is the comprehensive program that analyses all the data from all the above programs (plus others) and creates a searchable database. Targets can be searched for using name, email, or phone number, but can also be found using other criteria, such as unusual words they use often, locations they visit using Google Maps, or using another country’s language often."
https://www.valuewalk.com/2019/07/espionage-operations-digit...
https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-surveillance-programs-prism-up...
This was well-known and commented on at the time Greenwald's articles were being published, with the NYT reporting on the program correctly the very next day by interviewing people actually involved in the program (verifying claims like real journalists — why didn't The Guardian think of that?).
https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-...
https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/how-to-talk-about-prism-and-...
https://medium.com/prism-truth/the-prism-details-matter-82a1...
In response, Greenwald doubled down on his incompetent misreading of the slides without providing any evidence to support his obviously ridiculous assertions.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/nsa-pa...
Had no idea about what? There is no evidence that Google has cooperated with the NSA on anything except tracking down Chinese hackers.
> I recognize that co-operation with the NSA is.. as they say.. non-optional.
There is no evidence that they have been coerced into cooperating with the NSA on anything.
"We have long been concerned about the possibility of this kind of snooping, which is why we have continued to extend encryption across more and more Google services and links, especially the links in the slide. We do not provide any government, including the U.S. government, with access to our systems. We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform.”
First they say that they were concerned about the possibility.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323949904578539...
"Google's request, made in a public letter written by its chief legal officer, David Drummond, comes after the government last Saturday publicly acknowledged that Internet content companies had received secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests about the activities of their users."
Then they say that they handed over the data as legally required.
The only point worth mentioning is the difference between 'access and 'unfettered access'. Google claims the latter never happened, only the former.
>There is no evidence that they have been coerced into cooperating with the NSA on anything.
Okay, you believe what you want to believe. This conversation doesn't seem tb be going anywhere. Goodbye, and have a nice day.