Revealed: Google and Facebook DID allow NSA access to data and were in talks to set up 'spying rooms' despite denials by Zuckerberg and Page...

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Larry Page of Google both strongly denied giving unfettered access to user data to U.S. officials, but it turns out both companies have, in fact, cooperated with governments requests.

Zuckerberg denied his company's link to secret government data-sharing scheme PRISM on Friday in a blustery posted message that described allegations that Facebook gave 'US or any other government direct access to our servers' as 'outrageous.'

Now, sources tell the New York Times that both Facebook and Google discussed plans to create secure portals for the government 'like a digital version of the secure physical rooms that have long existed for classified information' with U.S. officials.

In his post, Zuckerberg said he had not even heard of PRISM until reports broke on Thursday and vowed to fight 'aggressively to keep [users'] information safe and secure.'

Google CEO Larry Page did likewise.

'We have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers,' he said in a statement that resembled deeply the one issued by Zuckerberg. 'We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.'

The search engine's chief lawyer David Drummond also said that media reports linking Google to PRISM were false. Full story...

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