Kelsey D. Atherton
at 03:30 AM Jun 15 2013
Tech // 

The National Security Agency spying program known as PRISM is a huge deal. Accessing private information from nine major internet companies, PRISM gives intelligence agencies a veritable sea of information to sort through in their attempts to discover the next threat. Meanwhile, the NSA collected phone records for millions of Verizon customers following the Boston Marathon bombing, assembling a vast pool of data to mine in the hopes of uncovering accomplices of the bombers.

Dan Nosowitz
at 02:59 AM Jun 13 2013
Tech // 

"Every member of Congress has been briefed on this program," said President Obama last week in his response to the revelation of PRISM, the massive government surveillance program. This was scary! All of Congress - 435 voting House members, 6 non-voting House members, and 100 senators - knew about this? How can we trust anyone?

Kelsey D. Atherton
at 07:00 AM Jun 8 2013
Tech // 

This was a bad week for spies, and a great week to find out how we were spied on. Following revelations Wednesday that Verizon handed over millions of call records to the National Security Administration, news broke Thursday that the FBI and NSA had access (probably not direct) to servers for nine US internet companies. The name of this program is PRISM, as a reference to splitting light on fibre-optic cables.

Dan Nosowitz
at 02:31 AM Jun 8 2013
Tech // 

Last night we learned about PRISM, a classified National Security Agency program that involves huge, wide-ranging data pulls from major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo. A reader tip sent in to Talking Points Memo this morning alerted us to the possibility that Palantir Technologies, a Silicon Valley firm, is, according to the tipster, providing the technology that enables the mass-surveillance NSA project known as PRISM. Here's how Palantir describes itself:

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