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Dear Google users—
You may move aware of press reports alleging that Internet companies get got joined a hush-hush U.S. authorities programme called PRISM to laissez passer the National Security Agency straight access to our servers. As Google’s CEO too Chief Legal Officer, nosotros wanted you lot to get got the facts.
First, nosotros get got non joined whatever programme that would laissez passer the U.S. government—or whatever other government—direct access to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. authorities does non get got straight access or a “back door” to the information stored inwards our information centers. We had non heard of a programme called PRISM until yesterday.
Second, nosotros furnish user information to governments alone inwards accordance amongst the law. Our legal squad reviews each too every request, too oft pushes dorsum when requests are overly wide or don’t follow the right process. Press reports that advise that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ information are false, period. Until this week’s reports, nosotros had never heard of the wide type of society that Verizon received—an society that appears to get got required them to mitt over millions of users’ telephone phone records. We were really surprised to acquire that such wide orders exist. Any proffer that Google is disclosing information near our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.
Finally, this episode confirms what nosotros get got long believed—there needs to move a to a greater extent than transparent approach. Google has worked hard, inside the confines of the electrical current laws, to move opened upward near the information requests nosotros receive. We postal service this information on our Transparency Report whenever possible. We were the kickoff companionship to produce this. And, of course, nosotros sympathize that the U.S. too other governments demand to accept activity to protect their citizens’ safety—including sometimes past times using surveillance. But the marker of secrecy unopen to the electrical current legal procedures undermines the freedoms nosotros all cherish.
You may move aware of press reports alleging that Internet companies get got joined a hush-hush U.S. authorities programme called PRISM to laissez passer the National Security Agency straight access to our servers. As Google’s CEO too Chief Legal Officer, nosotros wanted you lot to get got the facts.
First, nosotros get got non joined whatever programme that would laissez passer the U.S. government—or whatever other government—direct access to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. authorities does non get got straight access or a “back door” to the information stored inwards our information centers. We had non heard of a programme called PRISM until yesterday.
Second, nosotros furnish user information to governments alone inwards accordance amongst the law. Our legal squad reviews each too every request, too oft pushes dorsum when requests are overly wide or don’t follow the right process. Press reports that advise that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ information are false, period. Until this week’s reports, nosotros had never heard of the wide type of society that Verizon received—an society that appears to get got required them to mitt over millions of users’ telephone phone records. We were really surprised to acquire that such wide orders exist. Any proffer that Google is disclosing information near our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.
Finally, this episode confirms what nosotros get got long believed—there needs to move a to a greater extent than transparent approach. Google has worked hard, inside the confines of the electrical current laws, to move opened upward near the information requests nosotros receive. We postal service this information on our Transparency Report whenever possible. We were the kickoff companionship to produce this. And, of course, nosotros sympathize that the U.S. too other governments demand to accept activity to protect their citizens’ safety—including sometimes past times using surveillance. But the marker of secrecy unopen to the electrical current legal procedures undermines the freedoms nosotros all cherish.