By: Shelly Palmer on 6.14.13
When news broke that Verizon was handing over information about all of its calls to the National Security Administration, things were bad enough. In the week since then, however, things have only gotten worse for our personal security.
A program called PRISM was outed by the Washington Post. According to the top-secret document obtained by the Washington Post, the NSA and FBI have been “tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets.” How big is PRISM, you ask? Massive. The document states that the collection comes “directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”
Basically, anything you’ve ever shared with anyone about anything on the internet has (maybe) already been seen by the government.
Scared yet?
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