Google And Facebook DID Allow NSA Access To Data And Were In Talks To Set Up 'Spying Rooms'

Revealed: Google And Facebook DID Allow NSA Access To Data And Were In Talks To Set Up 'Spying Rooms' Despite Denials By Zuckerberg And Page Over PRISM Project -- Daily Mail

* Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page both issued blustery statements over recent media reports they gave the National Security Agency officials access to their troves of user information
* Now sources say both tech giants were in discussion about specific ways to give U.S. officials access to their data using virtual classified information reading rooms
* Companies are all compelled by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to hand over any information requested under the law, but they're not required to make access easier
* PRISM data-mining program was launched in 2007 with approval from special federal judges
* Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL and PalTalk are involved in spying program
* The UK has had access to the PRISM data since at least 2010
* Details of data collection were outlined in classified 41-slide PowerPoint presentation that was leaked by intelligence officer

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Larry Page of Google both strongly denied giving unfettered access to user data to U.S. officials, but it turns out both companies have, in fact, cooperated with governments requests.

Zuckerberg denied his company's link to secret government data-sharing scheme PRISM on Friday in a blustery posted message that described allegations that Facebook gave 'US or any other government direct access to our servers' as 'outrageous.'

Now, sources tell the New York Times that both Facebook and Google discussed plans to create secure portals for the government 'like a digital version of the secure physical rooms that have long existed for classified information' with U.S. officials.

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My Comment: This NSA surveillance program story gets more depressing with each passing day. And .... why is the British press far ahead of their American counterparts in covering this story?