*Podcast: When U.S. Companies Help the NSA* /by Nicole Collins Bronzan/ ProPublica, Oct. 20, 2014, 10:48 a.m. A year and a half into the release of classified documents by Edward Snowden, the existence of far-reaching National Security Agency surveillance is common if controversial knowledge. But until The Intercept published new documents this month, the role of American companies in that surveillance was less than clear, ProPublica’s Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson tell Editor-in-Chief Steve Engelberg in this week’s podcast. The new documents describe "contractual relationships" between the NSA and unnamed U.S. companies and reveal that the NSA has "under cover" spies working at or with some of them. And indeed, it would be difficult for the NSA to do its work without their help, Larson says. […] Continua qui: http://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/podcast-when-u.s.-companies-help-the-...