> Apple is part of PRISM

PRISM was semi voluntary. And the legal immunities it operated under expired in 2017.

PRISM was also disclosed through a whistleblower, not a FOIA request. I commend your naivete if you seriously think Apple was included in the old wiretaps but exempted from the new ones.

> if you seriously think Apple was included in the old wiretaps but exempted from the new ones

Irrelevant to the inaccuracy of the statement “Apple is part of PRISM.” Present tense. (Emphasis mine.)

It’s important in these discussions to separate the nihilists who are convinced all is always lost from those who know what they’re talking about.

It's a pedantic distinction with presumably zero consequences.

Which is important to identify as it separates the eternally hopeful from those who've seen this cycle before.

> It's a pedantic distinction with presumably zero consequences

You say from unfalsifiable supposition.

That’s fine. You may not be wrong. But if the only evidence is mis-citing a shuttered programme, that’s important to note, too.

This. Apple, along with every "evil big tech", is in bed with NSA which was proven with PRISM

Out of curiousity, what do you think PRISM actually is?