NSA been spying for years with project PRISM

[Skippy00004]

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-prism-classified-data-collection-348/

Classified information obtained by the Washington Post and The Guardian has revealed a massive, warrantless online surveillance system in use by a US military intelligence agency, giving access to Americans' search history, emails, live chats and more.

The 41-page PowerPoint presentation, which has been verified by both papers and published almost concurrently on Thursday evening, outlines details of a previously undisclosed program known as PRISM, which allows the fabled military intelligence agency to harvest massive amounts of data on everything from electronic correspondence to file transfers.

According to the documents, the program currently boasts access to some of the largest Internet companies in the world, with Microsoft thought to be the first corporation to sign onto the surveillance arrangement in 2007.

That company?s participation was followed by Yahoo in 2008, Google, Facebook and PalTalk in 2009, YouTube in 2010, Skype and AOL in 2011, and Apple joining in 2012. Meanwhile, cloud storage company Dropbox is described as ?coming soon.?

With the participation of those companies, PRISM and thereby Washington intelligence workers have access to the bulk of Americans? email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP (Skype) chats, file transfers, social networking details and more.

In the disclosed documents, the NSA lauds PRISM program as "one of the most valuable, unique and productive accesses for NSA."

A lot of people are pissed about this one, old and young, including myself. 

[WhiteWolfReloaded]

Not shocked in the least. I've been hearing about programs like these since I was a kid. Just another way the government sets themselves up as judge, jury, and executioner. Or as they seem to think they are, "gods."

What used to be  "Hello son, how can I help you?"

Is now.  "I'm from the government. Report to your local FEMA camp. I mean re education center. Derp. Fuck it"  "I got another one for those coffins.

[JohnyMac]

    First they came for the tea Party member,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a tea party member

    Then they came for the AP & Fox reporters,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a AP & Fox reporter.

    Then they came for the Verizon, Google, YouTube, Skype, Apple, user,
    and I didn't speak out because I didn't use those mass media companies.

    Then they came for me,
    and there was no one left to speak for me.

[Ghost]

Not shocked in the least. I've been hearing about programs like these since I was a kid. Just another way the government sets themselves up as judge, jury, and executioner. Or as they seem to think they are, "gods."

What used to be  "Hello son, how can I help you?"

Is now.  "I'm from the government. Report to your local FEMA camp. I mean re education center. Derp. Fuck it"  "I got another one for those coffins.

You're dead on bro.

[APX808]

Not shocked in the least. I've been hearing about programs like these since I was a kid. Just another way the government sets themselves up as judge, jury, and executioner. Or as they seem to think they are, "gods."

What used to be  "Hello son, how can I help you?"

Is now.  "I'm from the government. Report to your local FEMA camp. I mean re education center. Derp. Fuck it"  "I got another one for those coffins.

I love your comic like response man 

[crudos]

Maybe, just maybe, this will spur the do-nothing Congress to repeal the Patriot Act? Remember when the only Senator to vote against it was a Democrat from Wisconsin named Russ Feingold? Remember all those in lock-step with Bush who blindly voted for this horrific trampling of our rights in the name of apparent safety, not once, but twice?
 

[JohnyMac]

Chicago politics in part means that Barry has something on every (Lets say majority) of folks in both houses.

I think he definitely has pictures of Senator Graham in bed with a goat!