“Just one day after disclosing the existence of a secret court order between the NSA and Verizon, The Guardian and The Washington Post both published secret presentation slides revealing the existence of 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 one giving the National Security Agency and the FBI direct access to a huge number of online commercial services.”
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