Earlier this month a top-secret PowerPoint presentation was released that leaked the existence of the US government's PRISM program. The program is a surveillance program that gives the US government a backdoor into user accounts at major technology companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Apple, among others. All of the companies involved have strenuously denied any knowledge of PRISM's existence and have been in damage control mode assuring users that their privacy is upheld.
Early today Apple issued a statement called Apple's Commitment to Customer Privacy in which it aims to clarify to users the steps it goes through to protect their privacy and also to state how many r
