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

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."

Comments

Re:As a concerned Canadian

[guruevi]

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

Re:confusion

[anagama]

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.