No evidence of NSA's ‘direct access’ to tech companies  —  Sources challenge reports alleging National Security Agency is “tapping directly into the central servers.”  Instead, they say, the spy agency is obtaining orders under process created by Congress.  —  The National Security Agency …

NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do  —  Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms  —  • Obama deflects criticism over NSA surveillance  —  Since Prism was first revealed …

From +David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer: We cannot say this more clearly—the government does not have access to Google servers—not directly, or via a back door, or a so-called drop box.  Nor have we received blanket orders of the kind being discussed in the media.  It is quite wrong to insinuate otherwise.

Cowards  —  Will not one tech CEO stand up and tell the truth?  —  The NSA story of the secret assassination of the Fourth Amendment continues to unfold.  Today we heard from Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.  —  Page was confused (the title of his post is “What the...?).

Solving the mystery of PRISM  —  What exactly is PRISM?  How does it work?  Who uses it?  Let's assume that the companies whose data is sucked in by a National Security Agency tool called PRISM are denying their knowledge of the word and its associations in good faith.

Through a PRISM darkly: Tracking the ongoing NSA surveillance story  —  The past few days have seen a blizzard of leaks about surveillance activity by the government's ultra-secret NSA arm, including data collection from phone companies and internet giants.  Here is what you need to know about this developing story.

Tech Giants Built Segregated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses To Protect Innocent Users From PRISM  —  The NSA may have wanted full firehoses of data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants, but the companies attempted to protect innocent users from monitoring via compliance systems …