NSA Paid Tech Firms Over Prism, Says latest Snowden Leak!

• NSA paid tech firms over Prism, says latest Snowden leak! 
  by Edward Moyer, http://www.cnet.com/ 
  Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft all received money to cover costs related to surveillance requests, the UK’s Guardian reports, citing documents provided by former contractor Edward Snowden.
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  Tech firms including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft received money from the National Security Agency to cover legal-compliance costs related to the NSA’s Prism surveillance program, according to the latest Edward Snowden documents published by the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
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  A 2011 ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance — or FISA — Court found unconstitutional the NSA’s inability to collect foreign Internet data without also collecting domestic data. And the NSA worked to rejigger its systems to bring them in line with the law. (The 2011 ruling was released this week as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.)
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  The Guardian says of the new Snowden documents:
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