Prism Snowden
Made by: Verc Zhang 500680474 Jort de Jong 500686278 Pieter Verburg 500683678 David Hoek 500681766 Table of content
Introduction
That the U.S. government was spying on its citizens , since 9/11, was obvious. but how far they exactly are going, became clear when Edward Snowden leaked information about the secret project of the National Security Agency, PRISM. The 29 -year-old system administrator saw shocking things during his three months at NSA, so shocking he leaked information to the British newspaper; The Guardian and fled out of the U.S.A.
Snowden told a journalist from The Guardian that the NSA, U.S. intelligence, has direct access to the servers of all the big tech companies . The program called PRISM , is used to store the data of companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Skype and analyze this information . At first the companies vigorously denied that they give the NSA access, but then Obama made clear that the existence of Prism is a fact.
Unfortunately , not all details of the program are known. There are only a handful of slides from a PowerPoint presentation published but The Guardian is in possession of more . Overall, the presentation would have 41 slides but these were, according to the newspaper, too hot to publish.
Everything the NSA does in the Prism program is made possible and legal by the U.S government. Not just the normal court but it all the decisions are made in a secret court. Those decisions are not published and can therefore not be seen by normal citizens of America or any other country. Only the existence of a secret court is kind of shady.
The U.S government itself states that Prism is needed to fight terrorism. But a lot of examples of eavesdropping shows otherwise. For example, the management of a Mexican oil company has been bugged. That is purely spying on an economical level.
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Introduction
That the U.S. government was spying on its citizens , since 9/11, was obvious. but how far they exactly are going, became clear when Edward Snowden leaked information about the secret project of the National Security Agency, PRISM. The 29 -year-old system administrator saw shocking things during his three months at NSA, so shocking he leaked information to the British newspaper; The Guardian and fled out of the U.S.A.
Snowden told a journalist from The Guardian that the NSA, U.S. intelligence, has direct access to the servers of all the big tech companies . The program called PRISM , is used to store the data of companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Skype and analyze this information . At first the companies vigorously denied that they give the NSA access, but then Obama made clear that the existence of Prism is a fact.
Unfortunately , not all details of the program are known. There are only a handful of slides from a PowerPoint presentation published but The Guardian is in possession of more . Overall, the presentation would have 41 slides but these were, according to the newspaper, too hot to publish.
Everything the NSA does in the Prism program is made possible and legal by the U.S government. Not just the normal court but it all the decisions are made in a secret court. Those decisions are not published and can therefore not be seen by normal citizens of America or any other country. Only the existence of a secret court is kind of shady.
The U.S government itself states that Prism is needed to fight terrorism. But a lot of examples of eavesdropping shows otherwise. For example, the management of a Mexican oil company has been bugged. That is purely spying on an economical level.
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