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Current Events => Terrorism In the US and Around the World => Topic started by: CG6468 on June 07, 2013, 12:22:39 PM
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NSA PRISM program taps in to user data of Facebook, Yahoo and others
Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill
The Guardian, Thursday 6 June 2013
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.
The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims "collection directly from the servers" of major US service providers.
Although the presentation claims the program is run with the assistance of the companies, all those who responded to a Guardian request for comment on Thursday denied knowledge of any such program.
In a statement, Google said: "Google cares deeply about the security of our users' data. We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully. From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'back door' into our systems, but Google does not have a back door for the government to access private user data."
Several senior tech executives insisted that they had no knowledge of PRISM or of any similar scheme. They said they would never have been involved in such a program. "If they are doing this, they are doing it without our knowledge," one said.
An Apple spokesman said it had "never heard" of PRISM.
The NSA access was enabled by changes to US surveillance law introduced under President Bush and renewed under Obama in December 2012.
The program facilitates extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information. The law allows for the targeting of any customers of participating firms who live outside the US, or those Americans whose communications include people outside the US.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/Prism-001.jpg)
Yet another scoop from the Brits (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data)
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Which is why - outside of the most basic of identifying information - I really don't give any of these sites much information about me. (If these folks were smart, they wouldn't place too much stock in the information they do have from me, either. :naughty: )
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They must like pRon.................allot.
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They must like pRon.................allot.
Akshully, I hear your collection of teh ghey midget pr0n really made the guy tasked with keeping an eye on you pretty queasy when he first found it. :-) :-)
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We're on their lists just for being members here. :lmao:
They must love my google searches. Every time I hear some sort of explosive mentioned on the news or other TV show, I search for information about it. :fuelfire:
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Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994, during the presidency of Bill Clinton (Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279, codified at 47 USC 1001-1010).
In its own words, the purpose of CALEA is:
To amend title 18, United States Code, to make clear a telecommunications carrier's duty to cooperate in the interception of communications for Law Enforcement purposes, and for other purposes.
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I am absolutely stunned to learn of this --- NOT.
Big Brother has never gotten any smaller. Like the size of the government itself, Big Brother just keeps getting bigger.
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I am absolutely stunned to learn of this --- NOT.
Big Brother has never gotten any smaller. Like the size of the government itself, Big Brother just keeps getting bigger.
Big, Intrusive Brother is getting nastier, too.
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How is collecting data on 300 million Americans supposed to keep us safer?
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How is collecting data on 300 million Americans supposed to keep us safer?
Just because. Or something like that.
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How is collecting data on 300 million Americans supposed to keep us safer?
Just because. Or something like that.
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How is collecting data on 300 million Americans supposed to keep us safer?
If by "us" you're referring to those same 300 million Americans; it isn't.
However if the usage of "us" were a reference to the employment status of 545 political class boobs and their tens of thousands of unelected minions, then you're getting closer to the heart of what all this domestic surveillance is designed to protect, theoretically.
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If by "us" you're referring to those same 300 million Americans; it isn't.
However if the usage of "us" were a reference to the employment status of 545 political class boobs and their tens of thousands of unelected minions, then you're getting closer to the heart of what all this domestic surveillance is designed to protect, theoretically.
Mom came across some old letters Dad had sent to her aboard a ship before I was born, war time ww2.
Odd to read them as they had been censored with blacked out parts. When one thinks about the number of men serving at the time and the amount of letters written home to think where did the government find enough people to read each one and censor it ???
60's the Subs had this fam gram thing we family could send one a month to the men on the boats.
We had to keep the word count to 30 or so and these were censored so anything negative was blacked out. One friend of mine sent this fam gram, "We are fine ,miss you too, we have survived the Flu."""
What her husband got was, "We are fine, miss you too, we have survived the" That was one confused Chief, was miserable until a month later the next one came in. What had his wife and two kids survived ??
Just a hop skip and a jump from censorship of code words that may block conversations like the beep on TV when some one swears. Naturally the crooks and terrorists will find a way to get around this as we wives worked out ways to get around the censers. It becomes a game to out wit anyone that we find raining on our parade.
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Akshully, I hear your collection of teh ghey midget pr0n really made the guy tasked with keeping an eye on you pretty queasy when he first found it. :-) :-)
Hell, you didn't even make it to the Donkeys. :thatsright:
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I feel like a Prismer in my own home. Also, the word "Brother" is a yellow zone word, and is under serious consideration for inclusion into the list of banned words.