‘NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Program’

From The Washington Post on new information about how PRISM works:

The FBI uses government equipment on private company property to retrieve matching information from a participating company, such as Microsoft or Yahoo and pass it without further review to the NSA.

This sounds a lot like “direct access” to me.

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by Ben Brooks
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From The Washington Post on new information about how PRISM works: The FBI uses government equipment on private company property to retrieve matching information from a participating company, such as Microsoft or Yahoo and pass it without further review to the NSA. This sounds a lot like “direct access” to me.