“It looks like Apple didn’t buckle and provide mass data to the USG until after the death of Steve Jobs. Microsoft, which is currently running an advertising campaign with the slogan ‘Your privacy is our priority,’ appears to be the first to have buckled, in December 2007. It was followed by Yahoo in 2008; Google, Facebook and PalTalk in 2009; YouTube in 2010; Skype and AOL in 2011; and Apple,which joined the program in 2012.”
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/dates-when-prism-data-collection-began.html
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