The NSA's slides disagree with you. Here is the slide explaining how the data flows. https://imgur.com/setOJIm
PRISM is simply a data integration system that gets data from the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit, which is the group that handles Internet communication wiretaps on specific individuals under investigation.
If you paint with that broad brush, the users whose data PRISM consumes are also part of the PRISM program. That's a fairly useless definition. What people are interested when talking about PRISM is whom the NSA integrates with.
Google also isn't listed in NSA documentation as collaborators.
Google also didn't integrate with the PRISM program.
Same.
Edit (responding too fast):
> Literally page five lists the companies
Page 5 doesn't say they are "collaborators."
> and page six lists the per company agreement dates
Page 6 doesn't say there was an "agreement" with those companies. It simply lists the dates that the FBI made data they have from these companies available for ingestion.
Stop pretending words exist in the documents that don't. That's conspiracy theory nonsense by the exact same method as Pizzagate.
The PRISM slides list per company agreement dates spanning over five years. Microsoft started first in 2007, Google was added in 2009, with Apple being one of the last in 2012. If it was a system that was simply ingesting FBI data, why would it wait until 2012, unless you're suggesting that Apple didn't respond to FBI requests at all until late 2012?
Just because the NSA had a program to exceed even what had been negotiated via PRISM, doesn't mean that PRISM didn't involve collaboration.
PRISM is simply a data integration system that gets data from the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit, which is the group that handles Internet communication wiretaps on specific individuals under investigation.