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WA Post Publishes 4 More Slides On Data Collection From Google, Et Al

Posted by timothy on from the so-much-wool-so-many-eyes dept.

anagama writes "Lots of new program names, flowcharts, and detail in four previously unreleased PRISM slides published by the Washington Post today. These slides provide some additional detail about PRISM and outline how the NSA gets information from those nine well known internet companies. Apparently, the collection is done by the FBI using its own equipment on the various companies' premises and then passed to the NSA where it is filtered and sorted."

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  1. Re:confusion by anagama · · Score: 3, Informative

    The FBI equipment is for CALEA and is on site in ISP's, not content providers such as google and yahoo.

    The third slide has this annotation:

    The PRISM case notation format reflects the availability, confirmed by The Post's reporting, of real-time surveillance as well as stored content. ... Depending on the provider [referencing the infamous 9], the NSA may receive live notifications when a target logs on or sends an e-mail, or may monitor a voice, text or voice chat as it happens (noted on the first slide as "Surveillance").

    So who should I believe -- the government's own claims or that of an AC?

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  2. Re:As a concerned Canadian by guruevi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check the HTML - Google gets notified of every page you visit on here, in detail.

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  3. Re:As a concerned Canadian by Wookie+Monster · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ghostery blocked five trackers on this page. http://www.ghostery.com/

  4. Re:And how do we know these are legit? by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Informative

    It would be pretty easy to create PowerPoint with the requisite markings, logos, etc, on it and then peddle it to various newspapers.

    because the response the gov. took about them... they started arguing about how it is necessary for them to do this. that's how we know.

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  5. Re:confusion by anagama · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're totally wrong.

    We've SUSPECTED spying. It was even reasonable to suspect that, though you could still be called a foil hatter.

    Now we KNOW.

    It is like the difference between an untested hypothesis you strongly suspect is true, and experimental results that confirm the hypothesis. The confirmation allows a next step to taken on a fully informed basis rather than belief.

    So you are totally wrong -- this is NOT nothing. This is confirmation and if we don't do something about it now, it will be seen as a free pass to do this and more. That's why you should care -- apathy now absolutely ensures a deteriorating future.

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