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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Emails shed light on Google's work with NSA

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. In one email, Alexander refers to a previous meeting between NSA and Google officials and then invites Schmidt to a four-hour "topic-specific" and "decision-oriented" classified briefing on mobile threats and security. "Google's participation in refinement, engineering and deployment of the solutions will be essential," Alexander said in the missive.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248153/Ema ils_shed_light_on_Google_s_work_with_NSA [computerworld.com]

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