Tech Companies Paid Millions by U.S. to Cover Surveillance Costs
New documents from Edward Snowden's cache reveals that the U.S. government paid tech companies, such as Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and Microsoft, millions of dollars to keep their operations compliant in the wake of a federal court ruling.
New documents from Edward Snowden’s cache reveals that the U.S. government paid tech
companies, such as Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and Microsoft, millions of dollars to keep their operations compliant in the wake of a federal court ruling.
The requirements resulted from an October, 2011, ruling from the secret court assigned to surveillance requests that was made public last week, which said that the National Security Agency’s inability to separate domestic and foreign Internet traffic was a violation of the Fourth Amendment, according to The
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