Tech Giants Built Segregated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses

It seems to me that some somewhat sensationalist reporting has gotten in the way of the facts in this case.

I hope that in spite of this, the media furore surrounding the PRISM program encourages useful and open discourse about user rights in the age of rapidly proliferating digital information.

Sad that this only got 5 votes, when it's a perfectly logical explanation for all the sensationalism around this story.