Friday, June 7, 2013

NSA Mining Data of Nine Internet Companies, Post Reports

NSA Mining Data of Nine Internet Companies, Post Reports
The NSA and FBI are "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time," the Washington Postreported Thursday evening. The news came just one day after the British newspaper The Guardian reported about the National Security Agency's daily collection of the telephone logs of all Verizon's U.S. customers. 
The secret program, called PRISM, has been in operation since 2007, but has not been disclosed publicly before, the Post said. A career intelligence officer provided PowerPoint slides and supporting materials to the paper to expose the massive invasion of privacy. "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type," the officer said.

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