Since the news of the PRISM scandal broke every day brings a new story or statement from allegedly involved companies or government agencies. However, most of the facts that were spread around regarding the National Security Agency’s relationship with top tech companies were false, but still these facts proved quite lethal for technology companies, as they had tarnished their repute. As a result of that Apple, Google, Facebook and other tech giants have been working hard to restore their image. So as a part of this mission, top legal chief of Google, David Drummond has once again reaffirmed that the search engine does not give NSA direct access to users’ data or its servers and nor the multinational corporation is “in cahoots” with the government agency.
Drummond gave this statement during an interview with The Guardian. The legal officer of Google said that, “We’re not in cahoots with the NSA and there is no government programme that Google participates in that allows the kind of access that the media originally reported.” He reaffirmed that “There is no free-for-all, no direct access, no indirect access, no back door, no drop box.”
He also said that, “We didn’t know [Prism] existed,” and according to him Google was just as surprised over the leaked reports as the general public was.
“We’re not in the business of lying and we’re absolutely telling the truth about all of this. Our business depends on the trust of our users. And I’m an executive officer of a large publicly traded company, so lying to the public wouldn’t be the greatest career move.
If by what has now been “revealed” you mean the allegation that Google is allowing the NSA unfettered access to user data or that we’re handing over data willy-nilly to the government, again, that’s just not true. It’s not rhetoric, it’s just a fact.”
However, in the end Drummond once again reiterated Google’s previous statement that his company protects the users’ data at every cost and only gives it out on “legitimate” requests of the government.
He said, “We do push back where we can, and do everything we can to protect our users’ data. But we don’t write the laws. Maybe one positive outcome of all this will be to have a deeper debate on this and come up with laws that are more transparent to the public.”
Source: 9to5Google
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