Tech giants 'made it easier' for Prism surveillance program to harvest data

Source: Tech Radar

Silicon Valley's tech giants worked with the US government to 'make it easier' for them to gain access to the private data of users under the controversial Prism initiative, the New York Times reports.
Companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook were 'compliant' with the National Security Agency (NSA) in discussions over how to enable the 'lawful' sharing of personal information, the report claimed.
According to the Times' Claire Cain Miller, the companies "opened discussions with national security officials about developing technical methods to more efficiently and securely share the personal data of foreign users in response to lawful government requests."
The article claimed that some companies 'changed their computer systems' to make the information exchanges between the government (which, apparently, the Brits could be in on too) more efficie

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