[tvwonline]

I agree the details matter!

Each company would need to build an API for them, which would also need to be maintained. Imagine a dev updating some code and finding out he broke the build in the secret US govt. API? Ok that is a bit flippant, but the practicality of accessing the data is an issue, and would have involved lots of devs, managers etc which I would think increases the chances of leaks from with in each Internet company. There have been none, even now.

Just a thought.

Actually, hold that thought. Is it weird that no one is saying "I work at company x and I did or didn't see this".

[jack-r-abbit]

It doesn't even have to be an API. How about just a secure server that only contains the stuff they can have. Or some software that they use as a request/response queue. They log in and get it.