Do Americans realize what the PRISM software is? To date the national outrage re the NSA / Fed data requests under Bush/Obama has been relatively muted. Are people just burned out? Is OBAMA the ultimate pacifier for a fractured and eviscerated "Left" -- by design? --> : forbes/sites/kashmirhill/2013/06/17/edward-snowden-single-handedly-forces-tech-companies-to-come-forward-with-government-data-request-stats/ Read the above article. See the numbers of govt requests from Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Apple. Example -- Microsoft previously said that for all of 2012, it had 11,073 data requests for 24,565 accounts,. ... "... In the last 6 months of 2012, the U.S. gov wanted data over 8,000 times for over 18,000 Facebook users. Facebook wasn’t the only company to come forward with numbers for the first time as a result of the NSA leaks. On Monday, Apple revealed that from Dec. 2012 to May 2013, it received more than 4,000 requests for info about more than 9,000 Macheads. Sharing these relatively tiny numbers was the companies’ attempts to stave off claims that they are handing over massive amounts of intel to the NSA as part of the PRISM program. The government alerted tech companies Friday that they could hand over — for the first time — information about secret national security requests as long as they provided it in aggregated form along with all of the other government data requests that come in (such as the local police station trying to get information in a missing child case). Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft issued those reports, but Google objected, saying it wants to be able to list Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests on their own, rather than in a bundle. Still, even in a bundle, the numbers to come to light are illuminating in the case of Microsoft because of the ability to compare the new report with a previous report the company issued about 2012 data requests. See the chart below which includes the recent reports from Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, as well as the reports issued regularly by Google, Twitter, and, again, Microsoft: (see article link for chart) Microsoft previously said that for all of 2012, it had 11,073 data requests for 24,565 accounts, and that its VoIP company Skype received 1,154 requests for 4,814 accounts. Microsoft general counsel John Frank writes that all Microsoft consumer products had to be combined into one report for the national security disclosure, so I’ve bundled Skype and Microsoft data above (over 12,000 requests for over 29,000 accounts). Now Microsoft reports that in the last half of 2012 alone, it received more than 6,000 requests for data for over 31,000 accounts.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:23:45 +0000
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