The leaked document reads: “Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.” [1]<p>Its been reported that Facebook set up a secure server where the [NSA|FBI] could retrieve data that had been collected as legally required. [2]<p>A Google Chief Architect has claimed that no special systems have been built internally to support this. [3]<p>In summation, the likely setup is that someone (legal) vets the ordered request, oks the internal use of OAuth to spoof access to the data, & dumps it in a secure FTP server for the government to collect. To achieve "near real time", just look how they handle Google Product Feed's - every 30 minutes a "diff" of product data is updated.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling-concede-to-government-surveillance-efforts.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YonatanZunger/posts/huwQsphBron" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YonatanZunger/posts/huwQsphBron</a><p>edit: corrected Chief Architect title