20.03.2014 - 13:47 [ Techdirt ]

Don‘t Fall For Misleading Story Being Spread By NSA Suggesting Tech Companies Lied About PRISM

I‘m seeing a bunch of folks passing around a story by Spencer Ackerman at The Guardian, claiming that tech companies lied about their „denials“ of PRISM. The story is incredibly misleading. Ackerman is one of the best reporters out there on the intelligence community, and I can‘t recall ever seeing a story that I think he got wrong, but this is one. But the storyline is so juicy, lots of folks, including the usual suspects are quick to pile on without bothering to actually look at the details, insisting that this is somehow evidence of the tech companies lying.