Zuckerberg and Page have spying allegations - Heise Newsticker

heads of Google and Facebook have strongly rejected the accusation, to grant unrestricted access to user data to the U.S. Secret Service. “We are not party to any program that the U.S. government or any other government direct access to our servers by granting would,” wrote Google co-founder Larry Page in a blog entry on the night of Saturday. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said something similar, and assured that his online network would be “aggressive” resisted any request for free data access.

newspapers Washington Post and Guardian had reported on the system called PRISM, about the NSA to have direct access to data from Internet users at large could provide corporations. “You can literally see how your ideas come when you tap,” said the informant Washington Post . He had gone with documents such as a NSA presentation to the media, after he had seen the system in action.

To continue there is a gap between the denials of the Internet companies and the allegations in the newspaper reports. The Internet companies – were named alongside Google and Facebook among others, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo – confirmed at the same time that they provide the authorities with information on court order available

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The New York Times reported on Saturday systems for this data transfer. So be at least with Google and Facebook “separate, secure portals” have been negotiated for some of the company servers. The report left open whether these ideas were implemented. It was said that several companies have easier access to the authorities lawfully requested data and adapted some of their computer systems.

Google intensified after his denial even further. “We can not say it clearly enough: the government has no access to Google’s servers, either directly or via a” back door “or a” silent letter box ‘, “said general counsel David Drummond. “Our legal team reviews each request and fights often when they are too broad or does not follow the correct procedure.”

The New York Times also quoted a lawyer “a technology company,” which described how the NSA have an agent reassigned to the headquarters of the company to monitor the suspect in a cyber attack. The agent was developed by the government installed software on the server and had remained for several weeks to download data into a notebook of the agency. In other cases, the NSA demand real-time data, which would then be transmitted digitally.

report in the New York Times mentioned PRISM not by name, and it is in these cases only to the transmission of data on individual cases and on a legal basis. At the same time, the requests for foreign espionage law FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) be approved by a court of competent jurisdiction specifically and they were so secret that not even their existence could be confirmed, the newspaper wrote. To hand over the uncalled in FISA requests data is required – the Government to facilitate access to the information but not so about the short message service Twitter was able to reject this

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President Barack Obama defended the gathering of information on the Internet on Friday. This serves to counter-terrorism, sights are only non-American and the use of the data would closely monitored, he said. (Dpa ) / (pek)