Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program
Connie Zhou/Google, via Associated Press
A Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Google says it scrutinizes each government request and notifies users if it is allowed.
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Published: June 7, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world’s largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit.
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Twitter declined to make it easier for the government. But other companies were more compliant, according to people briefed on the negotiations. They opened discussions with national security officials about developing technical methods to more efficiently and securely share the personal data of foreign users in response to lawful government requests. And in some cases, they changed their computer systems to do so.
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