Today i want to share a great news that name is NSA Leak: Internet Giants Let Government Tap Your Data.
Facebook, Google and seven other major Internet companies are allowing the National Security Agency direct access to a wealth of users' data, according to a report.
Called PRISM, the program involves the NSA accessing the emails, documents, photographs and other sensitive data of users from all nine involved companies, according to a PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Washington Post and The Guardian. The PowerPoint was provided by a whistleblower in the intelligence services.
Microsoft, Yahoo, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple are also party to the program, the report alleges. Dropbox is reportedly "coming soon," while the PowerPoint document reveals that Apple held out for five years before finally relenting.
A Google spokesperson told both newspapers that "Google does not have a back door for the government to access private user data," but did admit that the company discloses "user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully." An Apple spokesperson denied that the company had ever heard of PRISM, according to CNBC. Facebook has also denied involvement.
The presentation was "intended for senior analysts in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate", according to the reports.
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The program has become the NSA's top source of raw intelligence,
accounting for nearly 15% of intelligence reports and serving as "the
most prolific contributor" to President Barack Obama's daily briefing,
per the The Washington Post. A Facebook spokesperson did not immediately return Mashable's request for comment. The one major Internet communications company notably absent from PRISM is Twitter, which has a history of fighting government requests for its users' data. Twitter representatives did not immediately return Mashable's request for comment.
The Washington Post identified its source for the PRISM slides as a "career intellgence officer" who felt "horror" towards the program. "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type," the officer told the newspaper.
News of PRISM's existence comes less than 24 hours after The Guardian published a secret order compelling Verizon to provide the NSA with phone metadata for millions of business customers.
That order is now understood to have revealed a longrunning NSA telecom surveillance program which began under President George W. Bush continued through the Obama administration. It's possible the outrage generated by The Guardian's story prompted this source to leak the PRISM slides.