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Jesus Malverde

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4. I'm curious about the size of the payments.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 12:04 PM

Aug 2013

Are they proportionate to the costs incurred by the companies or are they more of a subsidy?

A partnership between government and select corporations, independent of democratic oversight. There's a political term for that...

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NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies [View all] kpete Aug 2013 OP

Probably more like hundreds of millions... n/t jtuck004 Aug 2013 #1

taxpayer's millions kpete Aug 2013 #2

Now we know what vested interest Feinstein has in maintaining the spying DJ13 Aug 2013 #7

WTF??? progressoid Aug 2013 #3

They're on the payroll! My head just exploded. kpete Aug 2013 #5

I'm curious about the size of the payments. Jesus Malverde Aug 2013 #4

They paid Apple the least, because they complied last, after Steve Jobs stepped down. onehandle Aug 2013 #6

These companies are always pretending they are against spying David Krout Aug 2013 #8

Holy SHIT this is HUGH! snooper2 Aug 2013 #9

But it's okay. It's WAR money. War on Americans money. nt valerief Aug 2013 #10

"Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook" - our privacy is gone ConcernedCanuk Aug 2013 #11

And they say we're too broke to fund social safety nets. Rec'd n/t Catherina Aug 2013 #12

our tax dollars hard at work Supersedeas Aug 2013 #13