Yesterday, when a national security leak revealed that the government was collecting information from Verizon customers, the nation’s reaction was shock and disbelief.
Now, another leak, this time given to the Washington Post, is letting out all the dirty details about the National Security Agency’s program “PRISM,” otherwise known as “The Government Sees Everything You Do On The Internet.”
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Skype, Apple and YouTube are all a part of the PRISM project, which records audio, video, photographs, emails and documents from the tech companies we use every day.
Scared yet? Listen to this…
PRISM is actually a voluntary set up between tech companies and the NSA. Which means that in exchange for immunity from lawsuits, the companies accept a “directive” from the attorney general and the director of national intelligence to open their servers to the FBI’s Data Intercept Technology Unit, which handles liaison to U.S. companies from the NSA.
Ummm…
And guess what? All they need to tap into your account is a bit of suspicion…whatever that means. And with the click of a button, the government has access to any and everything you do on the internet.
Everything.
Well…except Twitter…which is surprisingly absent from the list, but we’re sure it’s on its way to the PRISM Illuminati.
Damn, no need to even tell you to “hide yo kids, and hide yo wife.” They already got us.
SOURCE: Washington Post | ValleyWag
