Google CEO Larry Page and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond insist that Google has not "joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers."The U.S. government does not have direct access or a “back door” to the information stored in our data centers, Google says. Page also claims Google "had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday."
Google does say it provides user data to governments "only in accordance with the law." Some might say that is likely accurate, but also not completely "true," either.
Michael Arrington suggests a way Google could be parsing words carefully, but also not completely denying that intelligence agencies can get the access reports claim. For one thing, entities supplying such data are compelled by law to deny they are doing so.
Nor would NSA or other agencies need access to Google's servers. Backup copies would do.
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