Tech Companies Deny Allowing Government Direct Access to Servers

Image of PRISM slide from The Washington Post

Apple, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook are among companies that have denied giving the federal government direct access to their servers in order to gain access to the private communications of citizens.

The denials are in response to a set of slides obtained by The Washington Post and The Guardian, which revealed a training manual for a secret surveillance program called PRISM, though which the government allegedly taps directly into the servers of these Silicon Valley companies in order to spy on terrorists.

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