Microsoft said it does not voluntarily participate in any government data collection and only complies "with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers".
That has allowed the companies to deny that there is "direct or indirect" NSA access, to deny that there is a "back door" to their systems, and that they only comply with "legal" requests – while not explaining the scope of that access.
All the firm's listed as participating in the Prism scheme have denied that they give the NSA "direct" access to their servers, as claimed by the slide presentation, and said that they only comply with legal requests made through the courts.
"Since we are still a developing country, the development level of our economy and technologies determines that China could only comply with the World Health Organisation stage I limits of the pollutants such as PM10 and PM2.5," said Mr Wu.
"The treatment of our children in detention centres must not only comply with our domestic and international legal obligations, it also serves as a moral gauge," Moses said.
And because GitHub works on HTTPS, providers can only comply by restricting access to the entire site, rather than individual pages.
"Quality and safety are our top priorities and we are working closely with government officials to ensure that we not only comply with all federal regulations but exceed them," said Theranos spokesperson Brooke Buchanan.
"Quality and safety are our top priorities and we are working closely with government officials to ensure that we not only comply with all federal regulations but exceed them," Brooke Buchanan, a Theranos spokeswoman, wrote in a statement on Sunday.
We not only comply with the laws, but we comply with the spirit of the laws".
We not only comply with their requests, we also understand why they're making them.
