Bart Gellman

Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access

2013-06-06 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

The Washington Post and The Guardian simultaneously published explosive revelations about PRISM, a classified program allowing the National Security Agency and FBI to tap directly into the central servers of nine major U.S. internet companies to extract audio, video, photographs, emails, documents, …

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Snowden Reveals NSA Mass Surveillance and PRISM Program

2013-06-05 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

Edward Snowden leaked classified NSA documents to The Guardian and Washington Post, exposing the massive PRISM surveillance program that collected electronic communications from major internet companies without warrants. The revelations showed the NSA was systematically collecting phone and internet …

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