The documents show that:Warrants? We don't need no steenking warrants!
• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;
• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;
• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;
• Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;
• Skype, which was bought by Microsoft in October 2011, worked with intelligence agencies last year to allow Prism to collect video of conversations as well as audio;
• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".
So much for the claims by various companies that "your privacy is our priority."
When government is allowed to lie without being punished, when Banks are allowed to lie, when everyone who "testifies" in front of Congress from the NSA's chief to the FBI to banksters to Bernanke are never prosecuted for perjury or otherwise sanctioned, what's the downside to lying?
There is none.
There have been repeated claims by all of these firms that there has been no blanket access to customer data by the NSA or anyone else.
This now appears, on the evidence, if the Guardian is to be believed, to be a flat lie.
Shall I make a crack about "365" really meaning "your data is observed 365 days out of the year"?
PS: This isn't limited to Microsoft. Read the entire Guardian article.
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