NSA’s PRISM Program Doesn’t ‘Target Americans’

Friday, 07 June 2013 | by Pat's Picks

The Washington Post is the first paper to connect the big names people interact with everyday on social media—Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft—to an NSA program called PRISM, which was created to take advantage of the country’s role as the global hub of telecommunications and harvest information. Of the nine telecommunication giants called out by the Post, Microsoft was the first to open up its records to the NSA, back in 2007. The response from security officials? PRISM data isn’t allowed to “target Americans,” a rationale not likely to sit well with the rest of the world.

The Post obtained top secret slides about the program, explaining how PRISM works. Check them out here.