Requests from the US intelligence in 2013

In the best traditions of the "free" Internet, the largest companies published data requests from the US special services for the first half of 2013.

So only in the company Yahoo received more than 30 thousand requests from US intelligence agencies with the requirement to provide information about users. Microsoft received 15-16 thousand hits, Google - 9-10 thousand. American intelligence services have become interested in Facebook users only 5-6 thousand times.
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The prevalence of Yahoo inquiries is explained by the fact that email from Yahoo is the most popular in the United States. Synchronizing mail from dropbox accounts allows you to access not only personal correspondence, but also personal files.

It should be noted that at one time the information that companies disclose personal data of users, produced a scandal and general outrage among users. Therefore, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn filed claims with the court and obtained permission from the US authorities to publish this data. If they are forced to disclose data, they try to be as transparent as possible.

Additionally:

On January 17, 2014, a document appeared on the network, according to which, the American intelligence services used the Prefer program, which analyzed data from automatic text messages that arrive at the subscriber’s phone. In particular, reports of missed calls, reports of border crossings, and even messages from travel companies were analyzed. And only the number of intercepted SMS messages exceeded 200 million per day!

So now you can be sure that not only IT companies, but also mobile operators cooperate with the authorities in the process of spying on people. Big brother found a way to cover all of us.