Google, in its latest blog post confirmed that they are in no way indulged in any sort of agreement with any government agencies to provide access to their data servers.
The blog post titled, “What the…?” says that Google was not aware of PRISM until thursday!
Wondering what PRISM is? The leaked National Security Agency (NSA) document obtained by the Guardian claims Prism operates with the “assistance of communications providers in the US”, to collect the data of clients from firms like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo for security surveillance.
Google denied the claims that it’s sharing user data saying,
We provide user data to governments only in accordance with the law. Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process.
Google emphasized that any reports that the company is sharing private data to government is false and is misleading its clients. The blog post says,
We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.
Also Google condemns the surveillance policy of the government and said, “the level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish.”
Source : Google
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