The government can read your email. They can read your search history, your chat logs and your file transfers. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” according to the whistleblower who leaked documents describing the NSA’s digital surveillance program to the Washington Post. The oft-imagined, never confirmed program under which the NSA claims to have “direct access” to the servers of the largest internet companies became real today. And we learned its name: PRISM.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:22:31 +0000