Affaire Snowden. Privacy groups, lawmakers rip into NSA surveillance. NSA leak prompts calls for U.S. to reduce reliance on contractor. NSA overreach: When a system of checks and balances breaks down. Did China Leak Prism Deliberately? Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents. Cameron under pressure PRISM revelations. The west is moving towards China in its quest for mass surveilla.
Facebook forensics? What the feds can learn from your digital cr. Solving the mystery of PRISM. What exactly is PRISM?
How does it work? Who uses it? Let's assume that the companies whose data is sucked in by a National Security Agency tool called PRISM are denying their knowledge of the word and its associations in good faith. And let us also accept their denials that they've given someone at the NSA "direct access" to their servers. So where are we? There are many types of nicknames and special words that the NSA uses. Some refer to collection tools. Each data processing tool, collection platform, mission and source for raw intelligence is given a specific numeric signals activity/address designator, or a SIGAD. PRISM is US-984XN. Each SIGAD is basically a collection site, physical or virtual; the SIGAD alphanumerics are used to indicate the source of intelligence FOR a particular report.
The NSA often assigns classified code names to the product of SIGADs. Analysts working on a problem can request that a particular collection site be tasked, or used. Details of secret Internet data collection program declassified. The head of U.S. intelligence released new details on Saturday about the federal government's secretive program to monitor Internet users.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied that the program, called PRISM, "unilaterally" obtains information from the servers of U.S. Internet companies. New NSA tool to quantify, track intelligence collection revealed – live. The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications.
Facebook & Google CEOs Say NSA Spy Program Is News To Them. WaPost backtracks on claim tech companies ‘participate knowingly. White House Defends Phone-Record Tracking as 'Critical Tool' WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency's activities.
The disclosure this week of an order by a secret U.S. court for Verizon Communications Inc. VZ -0.35 % 's phone records set off the latest public discussion of the program. But people familiar with the NSA's operations said the initiative also encompasses phone-call data from AT&T Inc. T -0.45 % and Sprint Nextel Corp. S -3.62 % , records from Internet-service providers and purchase information from credit-card providers.
PRISM scandal: tech giants flatly deny allowing NSA direct acces. US Secretly Mines Data From Internet Companies - Reports. No evidence of NSA's 'direct access' to tech companies. Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program. G's statement. Marc Zuckerberg's statement. Obama staunchly defends US surveillance programmes. NSA’s PRISM program: The government’s surveillance will lead to an abuse of power. Photo by Handout/Reuters After the Guardian’s revelation that the National Security Agency is mining the data of Verizon customers on Thursday, some of my colleagues told me to settle down.
Some volunteered to be spied on in exchange for reduced rates. I figured that the level of outrage would rise only if people thought the government had access to the actual content of their communications. But apparently I was wrong. The second shock wave about PRISM—the NSA’s program for vacuuming up online content including “emails, file transfers, photos, videos, chats, and even live surveillance of search terms”—has hit. Why is that?
Maybe that’s the problem. But then ask yourself: What would it take for you to be disturbed by massive data trawling by government agents? President Obama offered two reassurances Friday. The government has admitted to unconstitutional NSA spying before—last year. We probably don’t.
PRISM : Facebook, Microsoft, Apple… les géants du Web renseigner. NSA Leak: Internet Giants Let Government Tap Your Data. Documents: U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet. Google, Apple and Facebook Outright Deny They’re Helping the NSA. Facebook Denies Giving NSA Direct Access To Its Servers. NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal. The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.
The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called Prism, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says. New leak shows feds can access user accounts for Google, Facebook and more. It’s worse than we thought.
Just one day after disclosing a secret court order between the National Security Agency (NSA) and Verizon, The Guardian and The Washington Post both published secret presentation slides revealing a previously undisclosed massive surveillance program called PRISM. The program has the capability to collect data “directly from the servers” of major American tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Yahoo.
(Dropbox is said to be “coming soon.”) The newspapers describe the system as giving the National Security Agency and the FBI direct access to a huge number of online commercial services, capable of “extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.”