[Yaa101]

As if that will help public perception of these companies, I think after these outings of the companies in question, nothing stays the same, ever.

I personally will never ever trust any company with putting stuff into their systems.

For me the cloud as offered by them is dead and buried forever, even though I know that the NSA can capture anything with their split network rooms, the companies just lost my trust by lying as first.

It would have been less worse if they said that they were forced, but no, the arrogant adolescent nerd boys management thought it was ok to lie.

[zhemao]

First of all, we don't know whether they were lying. Second of all, if they were, they may have been forced by the government to lie. The FISA requests they were getting also came with gag orders.

[emiliobumachar]

I have not read the law, but I think a gag order can't force you to lie. Lie to a directly asked question, gray area; issue a lying press release or blog post, not mandatory.

I am not a lawyer.