14 DAY TRIAL // A Washington Post report says Apple (and other tech giants) are participating in a secret program to feed the US government with personal information about the country’s residents. Cupertino has denied such claims.
Refuting the claims made in said news story, Apple tells CNBC, “We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers.”
A government official told the Washington Post that PRISM, the program in question, “quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type.”
The gist of it is that the National Security Agency and the FBI sometimes need information like emails, photos, videos, and even connection logs to make a bust, and this happens without obtaining a warrant from a judge.
The companies named in the original report as having cooperated with PRISM include Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Skype, and YouTube. Dropbox is said to be jumping in soon.