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| Tech Giants: PRISM? We didn't know, honest - Breitbart |
| 2013-06-08 |
| On Thursday, Americans learned that since 2007 the National Security Agency (NSA) has operated a top-secret program called PRISM that vacuums up the actual contents--not just so-called metadata, as with the National Security Agency’s phone record collections--of emails, video and voice chat, photos, Skype calls, web chats, videos, file transfers, and social networking communications. PRISM circumnavigates the need for court orders and allows the NSA to directly tap and mine data from America’s biggest technology companies like Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... , Apple, Facebook, and others. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” one career intelligence officer told the Washington Post. A senior Obama Administration official issued a statement stating that the “law does not allow the targeting of any U.S. citizen or of any person located within the United States.” But as the Post notes, “NSA routinely collects a great deal of American content.” Such capturing of Americans’ content is “incidental,” claims the government. But the NSA’s laxity in determining whether a target is foreign or domestic is alarming. NSA agents merely enter a series of keywords and determine a 51% confidence in a target’s “foreignness” before moving forward. |
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| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-06-08 20:53 |