Google is Trying to Distance Themselves from NSA PRISM Internet Snooping

Well it seems that Google wants to come clean about the extent of the information that they are giving to the NSA.

Google made its plea in a Tuesday letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller. Google is trying to debunk media reports that the company has created a way for the National Security Agency to gain access to large amounts of its users' online communications as part of a secret program code-named "PRISM." 

The reports surfaced last week after a government contractor leaked confidential documents revealing the NSA has been tapping into the computers of Google Inc. and many other Internet services to retrieve information about foreigners living outside the U.S. The other companies linked to PRISM are: Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo Inc., Apple Inc., AOL Inc., Paltalk, Google's YouTube and Microsoft's Skype. 

So Google is trying to say that they didn't give the NSA email passwords or records of who searched for what and when. In other words they are trying to stop a rush to other email clients because users think that the NSA is reading their mail and building a secret dossier on them.