Slides published by The Washington Post appear to confirm
that the NSA and FBI have the ability to perform real-time surveillance
of e-mail and stored content.
NSA slide listing current participants in the
PRISM data collection program and what type of content may be available
for review.
The new slides, which come nearly a month after former NSA employee Edward Snowden leaked classified documents to the press about the program, appear to confirm that the NSA and FBI have the ability to perform real-time surveillance of e-mail and stored content.
The slides also seem to contradict denials from tech companies such as Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft about their level of participation in the program. The program "uses government equipment on private company property to retrieve matching information from a participating company, such as Microsoft or Yahoo and pass it without further review to the NSA," The Washington Post reported.
NSA slide describing the PRISM data collection process.
The new data also reveals when each company allegedly joined PRISM. Microsoft was the first company to join the program in September 2007, according to one slide, followed by Yahoo about six months later and Google in early 2009, according to one of the slides. Apple was the last to join the program last October.
The dates companies joined the PRISM program.
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