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The NSA's Ethos, "Collect it all," Is Also Every Technology Company's

Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian - the leading journalist behind the NSA metadata collection story - took a look at the Washington Post's profile of General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA. In it, he found the "crux of the NSA story" in the phrase "collect it all." But that phrase isn't unique to the NSA. Big technology companies, like Google, share that ethos too.

Microsoft Helped the NSA Penetrate Skype, SkyDrive, Outlook (Report): MS Denies "Direct Access”

More revelations about collaboration between technology and communications companies and U.S. Federal agencies came Thursday from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, this time asserting that Microsoft worked much closer with the FBI and NSA than the company seems to have previously stated.

Yahoo Discloses Data Requests: Google’s the Last Unknown of the PRISM Big Three

In a blog post late Monday, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer announced the number of requests for user data that the U.S. has made of the company in a six-month period, making Yahoo! the fourth major technology company to do so in the last week or so, after Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. Yahoo!'s admission was shorter and less detailed than some of the others and represented the highest count of United States government data requests in a six-month period divulged so far.

Apple the Latest to Disclose Government Data Requests, Snowden: Denials "Misleading"

Following the lead of Microsoft and Facebook, on Monday, Apple Inc. revealed how much data on its customers the United States Government has asked for in recent months. Apple is one of the many tech companies that have been named as cooperating with the government in the NSA Internet surveillance program, called PRISM.

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