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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. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Here - "The National Security Agency’s collection of phone data from all of Verizon’s U.S. customers is just the “tip of the iceberg,” says a former NSA official who estimates the agency has data on as many as 20 trillion phone calls and emails by U.S. citizens. William Binney, an award-winning mathematician and noted NSA whistleblower, says the collection dates back to when the super-secret agency began domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks. “I believe they’ve been collecting data about all domestic calls since October 2001,” said Mr. Binney, who worked at NSA for more than 30 years. “That’s more than a billion calls a day.” (emphasis added - UP) He called his figures “back of the envelope” estimates, adding that they include emails as well as telephone calls." Well, I guess I know what a good chunk of my bi-weekly check is going towards - UP.... HT: Drudge |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-06-08 20:53 |