Group Files FOIA Request Over Google NSA Collaboration
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Security Agency (NSA) seeking details of the worlds largest surveillance agency's relationship with the Internet's largest service providers. It is reported that Google and the NSA are in the final stages of reaching an agreement to have the NSA analyze a cyber attack on Google's network. The relationships between the NSA and telecommunication companies have been sited as a factor in the unlawful surveillance of domestic telephone communications. Statement to NSA Hill Oversight Committee on the Google/NSA deal.
Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, February 4, 2010