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Thanks, nobody ever owns it after digging in ;) This is what I meant by quasi-voluntary. They were not oblivious and hacked without their knowledge (under PRISM, that is - they were other ways), but they didn’t exactly have a choice.
Replying to the person stating I provided "false" info, which is all supported by links and sources!: It’s always “conspiracy theory”...until it becomes “conspiracy fact” years later. Read Google’s (or Apple’s, or Yahoo’s) denial of participation in PRISM. The statements are examples of “Lying by Omission.” Verizon actually shared documents/orders it received from NSA, astonishingly. If one understand the basics of l…
The NSA is a component of the US government, and if the NSA has something the US government also has it, so in the context of the sentence at issue, yes, if access was given to the NSA it was given to the US government.