It looks like the NSA was a little cozier with Silicon Valley company than we previously realized . Newly declassify document show that the spy agency ( read : taxpayers ) paid Google , Facebook , Yahoo , and others millions of dollar to cover the monetary value associated with PRISM .
In a way , the mellow cost of compliance is the NSA ’s own fault . Back in 2011 , a undercover FISA court reign that the NSA ’s inability to separate foreign from domestic tidings violated the Fourth Amendment . accord to documentsobtained by The Guardian , this lead to a new certification process for the applied science company that were aid out , and consort to the law , the burden fell on the federal government to traverse the associated costs . The millions of taxpayer dollar ’ worth of costs .
What ’s especially interesting about this belated revelation is that it provides trial impression that Facebook , Google and Quaker maintained a tightlipped relationship with the NSA than they ’ve admitted . After the initial serial publication of fib connected to Edward Snowden ’s leakhit the military press , all of these fellowship outdistance themselves from PRISM , and many claim not to have a lineal relationship with the spy agency . But weknew then that they were lying , and some suspected that money was changing hands .
https://gizmodo.com/what-is-prism-511875267
The Guardian reach out to Google , Facebook , Microsoft and Yahoo , all of whom either denied the fiscal relationship or declined to comment . At this point , though , nobody ’s really counting on anybody to tell the trueness . as luck would have it , declassified documents will plausibly just doing it for them . [ The Guardian ]
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