What is PRISM, a highly confidential system that allows you to peep directly into personal information on servers such as Google, Apple, and Yahoo!
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Many people suspect that the contents of calls and communications are monitored by companies and governments, but in fact, government agencies directly access central servers of Internet-related companies and collect personal information etc. It has become clear that a system called 'PRISM' that can be referred to has been operating in the United States for more than five years.
US intelligence mining data from nine US Internet companies in broad secret program-The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2- 8845-d970ccb04497_story_1.html
NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
This confidential surveillance system called 'PRISM' was established in the era of President Bush after the 9/11 terrorist attack. Companies have provided information in accordance with the law when the government issues an order to disclose personal information of users. However, it is difficult to obtain individual approval, so this `` PRISM '' that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been able to refer to information without a warrant or consent of companies is.
The subjects are as diverse as email, live chat, text, video, music, and communication logs, and there is no problem not only in Japan but also when communicating with people outside the United States. Microsoft, with the slogan 'Your privacy is our priority,' joined PRISM in September 2007. Following this are Yahoo! from 2008, Google / Facebook / PalTalk from 2009, YouTube from 2010, Skype / AOL from 2011, and Apple from 2012.
The Washington Post and the Guardian have access to resources designed to train and train intelligence agents involved in the system. The material consists of 41 slides and is classified as Top Secret, which is not distributed to allies. The document asserts PRISM as 'collecting (information) directly from the servers of major US service providers'. However, the range and nature of the data collected from each company does not seem to be uniform.
From the material, it can be read that 'PRISM is based on the help of companies', but Guardian asked each company for comment and answered that 'I do not know such a program'.
Google is deeply concerned about the security of user data and follows government requests for information disclosure in accordance with the law, but is investigating the nature of the request. thing. It also states that although some claim that the system has a government 'back door', there is no such back door in practice. According to senior technology executives, they do not know or are involved in PRISM or similar systems, saying, `` If the government were doing that, let us know. What are they doing? ' Apple also commented that he had never heard of PRISM.
This is the cover of the document, an overview of 'PRISM / US-984XN'.
Since the United States is a relay point of communication around the world, it can almost certainly catch the target wherever it is in the world.
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!・ It is shown that information such as video and audio of e-mails and chats, voices, photographs, stored data, and file communications are obtained from Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, and Apple.
You can see that the number of participating companies is increasing gradually. The cost of the PRISM program is likely to exceed $ 2 billion annually.
According to NSA documents, Dropbox will be added to the information provider in the future, and more than 2,000 reports in the department already use PRISM data every month, and 24,000 in 2012 as a whole, a total of 7 It is said that PRISM data is used in 17,000 reports.
James L. Jaffer of the American Association for Human Rights has said he was surprised that the NSA had asked companies to provide information in this manner, and has strongly blamed the company for confidential privacy violations.
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Ex-CIA / NSA official Edward Snowden, who uncovered the problem, revealed himself.
Former CIA official exposing the `` PRISM '' problem, where the U.S. government is collecting information on the public, reveals its real name
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