Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Yahoo, Microsoft und Apple verweigern die Teilnahme am “NSA PRISM Surveillance Program”
Die Washington Post berichtete heute, dass Google, Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, Microsoft, Paltalk, AOL (TechCrunch-Muttergesellschaft) und Yahoo über das sogenannten PRISM Programm der NSA, Zugriff auf sämtliche Daten direkt vom Servern des jeweiligen Anbieters ermöglichen. All diese Firmen wie Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft und Apple haben das sofort kategorisch bestritten. Sie werden am PRISM Programm nicht teilnehmen.
Hier die offizielle Stellungnahmen, deren Inhalt alle alle gleich klingen. Keiner hat etwas von PRISM gehört und so können sie an einem solchen Programm nicht teilnehmen. Die Daten werden nur herausgeben, wenn eine gerichtliche Anweisung vorliegt.
Facebook
“We do not provide any government organization with direct access to Facebook servers. When Facebook is asked for data or information about specific individuals, we carefully scrutinize any such request for compliance with all applicable laws, and provide information only to the extent required by law.”
Google
“Google cares deeply about the security of our users’ data. We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully. From time to time, people allege that we have created a government ‘back door’ into our systems, but Google does not have a backdoor for the government to access private user data.”
Apple
Apple gave this the statement to AllThingsD:
“We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order.”
Microsoft
“We provide customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so, and never on a voluntary basis. In addition we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers. If the government has a broader voluntary national security program to gather customer data we don’t participate in it.”
Yahoo
“Yahoo! takes users’ privacy very seriously. We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network.”
Dropbox
“We’ve seen reports that Dropbox might be asked to participate in a government program called PRISM. We are not part of any such program and remain committed to protecting our users’ privacy.”
