@soatok You're exaggerating about the Snowden disclosures, I recommend Electrospaces his blog about this topic:

https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/06/on-10th-anniversary-of-snowden.html

to quote the section about PRISM:

> The most controversial part of these stories was the claim that "the National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants", which those companies vigorously denied.

> That "direct access" was taken from one of the slides, but it's unclear why both Gellman and Greenwald stuck to the most simple interpretation of it. Fact is that they had access to the extensive accompanying speaker's notes, which clearly said: "PRISM access is 100% dependent on ISP provisioning".*