Facebook and Google insist they did not know of Prism surveillance program
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/google-facebook-prism-surveillance-program
Some speculated that the wording of the document was incorrect or that the author had over-hyped the scheme.
Security experts and civil liberty figures were less convinced. “I was assuming that these tech companies were just lying,” said security guru Bruce Schneier. “That’s the most obvious explanation.”
“Could it possibly be that there’s a department within these companies that hides this from the executives? Maybe,” he said. “I don’t know, we don’t know. This points to the problem here. There’s so much freaking secrecy that we don’t know enough to even know what is going on.”