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Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations

| Importance: 7/10

Following Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance, major tech companies began publishing transparency reports disclosing limited information about government data requests, marking the first time companies could publicly acknowledge FISA court orders. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, …

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Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed

| Importance: 8/10

Declassified documents revealed that Yahoo secretly fought the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2007-2008, challenging the constitutionality of government demands for direct server access to user data. Yahoo argued the demands violated the …

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

| 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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