The NSA slide you haven’t seen
Source: Washington Post
By Craig Timberg, Updated: Wednesday, July 10, 8:53 AM
Recent debate over U.S. government surveillance has focused on the information that American technology companies secretly provide to the National Security Agency. But that is only one of the ways the NSA eavesdrops on international communications.
A classified NSA slide obtained by The Washington Post and published here for the first time lists Two Types of Collection.
One is PRISM, the NSA program that collects information from technology companies, which was first revealed in reports by the Post and Britains Guardian newspaper last month. The slide also shows a separate category labeled Upstream, described as accessing communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past.
The interaction between Upstream and PRISM which could be considered downstream collection because the data is already processed by tech companies is not entirely clear from the slide. In addition, its description of PRISM as collection directly from the servers of technology giants such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook has been disputed by many of the companies involved. (They say access to user data is legal and limited).
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-nsa-slide-you-havent-seen/2013/07/10/32801426-e8e6-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)NSA PRISM Slides: Notice Anything Unusual or Missing?
Posted on June 12, 2013 by Rayne
- See more at: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/06/12/nsa-prism-slides-notice-anything/#sthash.AS6XRBuz.dpuf
From its file name it appears to have been published in The Guardian.
think
(11,641 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Not sure why WaPo is claiming this is being published for the first time.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Someone please humanely capture it and bring it home. I'm sure it's hungry, unless it's been feeding on the international cables, again. If it isn't that, it's the squirrel's tails we keep finding on the kitchen floor. Where's the rest of them?
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)mimi85
(1,805 posts)knows more about you than the NSA.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-consumer-tracking-20130701,0,3719521.story