There is no mystery that government agencies require technology companies to give them (totally legal) access to user data. It is also very well known that high-tech companies charge the government for the trouble. We just never really knew how much until now
Long story short, Microsoft support the FBI (read: taxpayers). Hundreds of thousands of dollars per month for access to information about you. And their rates are rising. The Syrian Electronic Army said it hacked into super-secret digital Intercept Technology Unit of the FBI (Ditu), where they found the actual invoices from Microsoft detailing how each application data cost.
An invoice from December 2012 totals $ 145.100 which amounts to $ 100 per application. The rate has doubled in August 2013, when Microsoft asked the FBI $ 0 per application for a total of $ 352,0. The latest bill from $ 281,000 in November 2013. Remember: these are six figures (from taxpayers) are for the value of user data requests a month. This adds to millions of dollars per year.
Read the full article and see all pirated bills on Gizmodo.
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