I remind you, Google was one of the companies caught collaborating with NSA as per NSA leak by Edward Snowden
Google is still a big target for the NSA and other espionage organizations.
It was on the powerpoint in the leak with the list of "industry partners"
PRISM for semi legal metadata access
And MUSCULAR for whatever they did not get with above
The system that sends new communications with the monitored individual to the FBI is definitely automated, but configuring an account to be surveilled is a manual process controlled by the company, not the FBI, and certainly not the NSA. The reason you cannot provide documents that say otherwise is that they don't exist. The reason those documents don't exist is that the program that you've described is a conspiracy theory fiction.
https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-...
Also, that article is entirely around a quote from Clapper's office that the NSA "does not unilaterally obtain information from the servers of U.S. electronic communication service providers", which we found out literally weeks after that article was openly a lie, at least because of the MUSCULAR program. Like Clapper has openly perjured himself on the specifics of some of these programs.
More recent article about Clapper's perjury on these matters: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/19/james-clap...
No, that quote is merely an update to the article. The bulk of the article quotes people who worked on the Secrion 702 data integrations at the tech comanies, quotes from a former government official who made the requests, quotes from a New York Times article that interviewed other people who worked on the system, quotes from the heads of the companies involved, quotes from former lawyers of the companies, and quotes from investigative joirnalists who specialize in national security. It also mentions that multiple government officials, including Senator Wyden who has long been concerned with government surveillance and has been read into all the programs, confirmed phone metadata collection but none confirmed Greenwald's ridiculous misreading of the PRISM slides. It also gives a layman's description of how Section 702 works, which is what enables this collection. Notably, Section 702 does not enable the government to do what you claim PRISM does. Finally, the article also answers your previous question by giving an example of a company fighting one of these requests. Your characterization of the article is mind-bogglingly inaccurate.
MUSCULAR cannot take arbitrary data off the companies' servers. At best, it can intercept their communications off unencrypted international WAN links. According to Snowden's leaks, this was used to collect email metadata for connection chaining (not email contents), a program that Snowden's documents said that Obama shut down.
> More recent article about Clapper's perjury
That's an opinion piece about a single incident. That incident involved a series of questions asking Clapper if the NSA built dossiers on Americans. It doesn't. Eventually, the questions loosened to whether the NSA collects any data on Americans. They do, but by that time, Clapper had been repeatedly saying No for some time and had not realized that any data also includes what he referred to as metadata. Notably, the phone metadata could only be queried in some fixed set of ways according to Snowden's documents, and tying that data to an individual required a separate request, so the phone metadata couldn't be reasonably thought of as constituting dossier information.
But the bigger issue is that you have absolutely no documents saying he lied about PRISM, and you once again exaggerated by saying he perjured on specifics of multiple programs.
PRISM was once told to be a conspiracy theory fiction
If there's evidence for the other program you're describing, it too can move out of the realm of conspiracy theory fiction. But until there is...
PRISM as it actually is was never a conspiracy theory. PRISM as Greenwald described it was and remains a conspiracy theory.
That isn't collaboration.
Their CEO was prosecuted to hell and back for daring to do this, and the company was forced to sell to a competitor. Nobody even remembers his name anymore, few people even remember Qwest.
Edit: maybe not. Wikipedia says he was convicted in 2007. However, I was given an NDA regarding something that sounded related at some point after that, so...
> Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, alleged in appeal documents that the NSA requested that Qwest participate in its wiretapping program more than six months before September 11, 2001. Nacchio recalls the meeting as occurring on February 27, 2001. Nacchio further claims that the NSA cancelled a lucrative contract with Qwest as a result of Qwest's refusal to participate in the wiretapping program. Nacchio surrendered April 14, 2009 to a federal prison camp in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania to begin serving a six-year sentence for an insider trading conviction. The United States Supreme Court denied bail pending appeal the same day.
He was happy to get paid hundreds of millions of dollars for spying on his customers, but didn't want to spy on his customers? What did he think those contracts were for?
Maybe internet transit or MPLS services, which were the company’s core product?
I won’t argue for a second that he was a good guy, but CEOs rarely get involved in the details of customer contracts. Especially in giant telcos.
You skipped the part where he acquired a competitor under false accounting, contributing to monopolization, as dumping his stock with irregular sales while to profit from value NSA contracts before the public knew they were canceled. Should a CEO make a fortune selling stock while the company loses 90% of its market cap?