NSA has no direct access to customers’ data, IT firms tell MEPs
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Microsoft, Google and Facebook managers denied giving the NSA or any government in the world direct or unfettered access to their servers, at the ninth NSA inquiry hearing on the mass surveillance of EU citizens held at Parliament on Monday. US Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner told MEPs that abuses by the NSA were carried out outside congressional authority. “I hope that we have learned our lesson and that oversight will be a lot more vigorous,” he said.
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J. Sensenbrenner, représentant (R.) du Wisconsin
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
• US Congress has little authority to stop the administration from spying
• Question : How is it possible that nobody had the idea during the last 12 years to check what the NSA was doing?
• NSA violated its own rules thousands of times. Time has come to clip their wings,
Dorothee Belz, Microsoft
• When asked, Microsoft only provides exact data specified in secret service order. There are no back doors, no encryption keys.
• We don’t know PRISM as a programme and we don’t give direct access to our servers.
• Question : If NSA had ordered you to install back doors – would you be allowed to tell us that now?
• There was no NSA request for a back door. But hypothetically, if there was one, I guess I wouldn’t be able to talk.
Nicklas Ludblad, Google
• We have not given US government access to Google servers. Not directly and not indirectly.
Richard Allan, Facebook
• Facebook has never received a request for in blanco access to our data. If we did, we would fight it aggressively.
• Facebook will publish as much info on requests as we can.