![]() ![]() On Tuesday, June 11,, asking for permission to disclose the mechanism by which FISA requests are completed. This matches reports from CNET and The New York Times. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has released a statement saying, "PRISM is not an undisclosed collection or data mining program." Instead, the name PRISM appears to refer to the actual computer program used to collect and analyze data legally requested by the NSA and divulged by Internet companies. It is apparently not the name for an overarching secret surveillance program in affiliation with certain large tech companies, as was originally reported by The Washington Post. But analysts need only be at least 51 percent confident of a target's "foreignness." ![]() The NSA can't intentionally target an Americans data. So how does this affect an American's data? For instance, a majority of Facebook and Google users are not from the United States. Why would there be foreign intelligence on American servers?Ī huge amount of foreign internet traffic is routed through or saved on U.S.
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