None of those involve any interaction between Google and the NSA. PRISM ingests data collected by the FBI from those companies under court order for wiretapping specific accounts. MUSCULAR is run by neither Google nor the NSA. XKeyscore is a frontend for a database of data collected elsewhere.
Snowden and Greenwald can't read. The FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit is right there on the slides they released: https://i.imgur.com/setOJIm.jpg
This was well-known and commented on at the time Greenwald's articles were being published, with the NYT reporting on the program correctly the very next day by interviewing people actually involved in the program (verifying claims like real journalists — why didn't The Guardian think of that?).
In response, Greenwald doubled down on his incompetent misreading of the slides without providing any evidence to support his obviously ridiculous assertions.
"We have long been concerned about the possibility of this kind of snooping, which is why we have continued to extend encryption across more and more Google services and links, especially the links in the slide. We do not provide any government, including the U.S. government, with access to our systems. We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform.”
First they say that they were concerned about the possibility.
"Google's request, made in a public letter written by its chief legal officer, David Drummond, comes after the government last Saturday publicly acknowledged that Internet content companies had received secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests about the activities of their users."
Then they say that they handed over the data as legally required.
The only point worth mentioning is the difference between 'access and 'unfettered access'. Google claims the latter never happened, only the former.
>There is no evidence that they have been coerced into cooperating with the NSA on anything.
Okay, you believe what you want to believe. This conversation doesn't seem tb be going anywhere. Goodbye, and have a nice day.
