New Delhi, June 8
Amidst an uproar in the US over the government secretly tracking information on foreigners from Internet firms, Google and Facebook have categorically denied their participation in such a project.

Both the US-based technology giants said that their organisations were not aware about the PRISM programme until it hit headlines.

In a post on his FB profile , its founder Mark Zuckerberg said: "Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers.” Similarly, Google CEO Larry Page in his blog said: “The US Government does not have direct access or a 'back door' to the information stored in our data centres.” — PTI