Microsoft, Google and Facebook deny that the NSA direct access to your data

Tech giants Microsoft, Google and Facebook will ensure that neither the National Security Agency of the United States (NSA) or any government in the world have direct access to the personal data of its customers.

Executives of three U.S. multinationals denied-during the ninth hearing held in the European Parliament (EP) on the NSA spying-that this intelligence agency has direct access to its servers.

Google: The Government has not had access to servers, either directly or through a backdoor the newspaper ‘The Washington Post’ said last October that the NSA infiltrated data centers Google and Yahoo worldwide and collected hundreds of millions of user accounts.

According to documents from the NSA exanalista Edward Snowden. Yahoo and Amazon refused the invitation of the Civil Liberties Committee of the EP,

While a delegation of MEPs met in October with representatives from Apple. Meanwhile, U.S. Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner told MEPs that the NSA alleged abuses took place outside the control of the U.S.

Congress and hoped that after the scandal, the surveillance of the activities to be “much stronger”. The representatives of Google, Facebook and Microsoft defended the integrity of their products and rejected accusations that allow NSA access to personal data of its users through a “back door”.

The back door

“The U.S. government has not had access to Google’s servers, either directly or through a back door,” said the director of Public and Government Relations, Nicklas Lundblad. Microsoft: There is no back door.

But if there was, I could not talk about it MEP Christian Engström managers asked if they could say publicly that the NSA were forced to install a “back door” in their services to access the data, which is responsible for Microsoft , Dorothee Belz replied that there is not.

“There is a back door. But hypothetically, if there was one, I guess I could not talk about it,” he said. Belz said that you can expect from a company that violates the law with consequences that lead to the president, who would end up in jail.

Microsoft policy also said he does not know “Prism, not participate in it, or give the U.S. government access to our data.”

Neither Prism nor Tempora

According to the representative of Google, “we had not heard of any program or Tempora Prism before they came out in the media.”

Facebook: We spent a long time making ends not violate any law According to the revelations of Snowden, the NSA works with a program called Prism that allows its agents to directly access data stored in companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Skype.

Richard Allan, Facebook, meanwhile, said his company is subject to “multiple liability” legal with the United States and Ireland, the European headquarters of the social network, and the country that issues a request for data.

“We spent a long time making ends not violate any law,” he stressed, while also complained about the lack of government transparency on the data requested and suggested that they publish statistics on their applications.

In the first half of 2013, the U.S. extended between 11,000 and 12,000 applications, requested information effectively 20000-21000 accounts figures include requests made on behalf of third countries, such as EU Member States through assistance agreements Mutual Legal.

Microsoft, Google and Facebook deny that the NSA direct access to your data