Reports by the Guardian and Washington Post last month revealed a massive US government secret surveillance programme that monitored the internet activity and user data of non-Americans around the world to fight terrorism. Called PRISM, the programme began in 2007, but only came to light after National Security Agency (NSA) technical contractor Edward Snowden came forward and blew the whistle on the operation.
The US government allegedly ran a highly classified surveillance programme with the blessings of the Congress on non-US citizens using the services of a host of major tech companies. The likes of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple have been named in investigative report around the world, and the crux of the issue has come down to the fact that the companies seemingly provided the government direct access to huge amounts of user data. The companies named in the reports have denied claims of allowing direct access to data or setting up sub-portals for the NSA ,US authorities are currently involved in a manhunt for Snowden who was last known to have taken asylum in Hong Kong. He has sworn to fight any extradition attempts by the US.
The PRISM expose came on the back of revelations that the NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also ran taps on American citizens” telephonic conversations. In both cases, the government said that several terror plots had been averted because of the monitoring, including a planned 2009 attack on the New York subway system.
The US government allegedly ran a highly classified surveillance programme with the blessings of the Congress on non-US citizens using the services of a host of major tech companies. The likes of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple have been named in investigative report around the world, and the crux of the issue has come down to the fact that the companies seemingly provided the government direct access to huge amounts of user data. The companies named in the reports have denied claims of allowing direct access to data or setting up sub-portals for the NSA ,US authorities are currently involved in a manhunt for Snowden who was last known to have taken asylum in Hong Kong. He has sworn to fight any extradition attempts by the US.
The PRISM expose came on the back of revelations that the NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also ran taps on American citizens” telephonic conversations. In both cases, the government said that several terror plots had been averted because of the monitoring, including a planned 2009 attack on the New York subway system.
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