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On the heels of yesterday’s revelation that the NSA is bulk collecting call logs from Verizon Business customers, the Washington Post is reporting tonight on another initiative, code named PRISM, According to the report, it gives the FBI and NSA the ability to extract “audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs” from the central servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple. Another program called BLARNEY sniffs up metadata as it streams past “choke points” on the internet, continuing the them of bulk scooping of data most would think is private. The Post’s knowledge of these programs comes from PowerPoint slides provided by a “career intelligence officer” driven to expose how deep it goes.
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Source: Washington Post