Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer court-ordered data to the government, a company spokesman says, refuting with some finality one of the lingering theories about the NSA's Prism program.
Instead the company transmits FISA information the old fashioned way: by hand, or over secure FTP.
"When required to comply with these requests, we deliver that information to the US government -- generally through secure FTP transfers and in person," Google spokesman Chris Gaither told Wired.com. "The US government does not have the ability to pull that data directly from our servers or network."
By: Kim Zetter, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/12/google-prism-ftp
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