PasteBay.com - Free uncensored text hosting. ZoomZum. PRISM.GOV Spyware Launching. Stop Watching Us. NSA Gathering Phone Records From Millions of Verizon Customers. Correction appended: June 6, 2013 A top secret federal court order reveals that the FBI and the National Security Agency are collecting the cell phone data of millions of Americans.
The document, obtained by The Guardian, compels Verizon to send the NSA information about all telephone calls made on the telecom’s network within the United States. Here are seven quick things to know about the secret directive and its implications: 1. What Verizon Shares with the NSA: The court order requires Verizon to provide both the ingoing and outgoing telephone numbers of a given call, unique identifiers of individual phones, the time of the call and its duration. 2. (MORE: New Patriot Act Controversy: Is Washington Collecting Your Cell-Phone Data?) 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. MORE: Scrambling To Find AP Leaker, Obama’s Administration Vindicates Bush Correction. PRISM by the Numbers: A Guide to the Government’s Secret Internet Data-Mining Program. One day after The Guardian revealed that the U.S. government has been secretly collecting call log data from millions of Verizon customers, The Washington Post reported Thursday that the government’s monitoring of American’s data goes much, much deeper.
The FBI and the National Security Agency are mining the servers of the country’s biggest technology companies for the purpose of hunting spies and terrorists. The program, code-named PRISM, is massive in scope and involves web services that many Americans use every day. To make all this shadowy surveillance easier to digest, here are the relevant data points about the massive data collection: (MORE: 7 Things to Know About the Government’s Secret Database of Telephone Data) The number of tech companies involved in the PRISM program. Microsoft (September 2007)Yahoo (March 2008)Google (January 2009)Facebook (June 2009)PalTalk (December 2009)YouTube (September 2010)Skype (February 2011)AOL (March 2011)Apple (October 2012) DuckDuckGo. Escape your search engine Filter Bubble! DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information.
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