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Emails Expose Google's Collaboration With NSA Since 2012

Calendar May 07, 2014 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Two sets of emails obtained by Al Jazeera America under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that Google's cooperation with the National Security Agency (NSA) may have been less coerced than the company has let on.

The emails date back to June 2012 and chronicle communications between NSA director General Keith Alexander and Google executives Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin.

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