Zuckerberg and Mayer hit back at Prism critics

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says she could go to jail for not complying, while Zuckerberg says government did a bad job

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Yahoo counterpart Marissa Mayer have both commented on the NSA Prism revelations, insisting that both web firms did as much as they could to resist governmental...

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