Articles about prism

It hasn’t been long since former CIA technical analyst Edward Snowden leaked a cache of top secret documents which alleged that the NSA was obtaining user data from major internet companies. The companies named in those documents included Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, among others. Most of these companies denied knowing about the PRISM program. Its no secret that the U.S. government does make requests for user data under the […]

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is at it again. In a new string of documents provided to The Guardian by the ex-CIA technical analyst, it is alleged that NSA paid millions of dollars of taxpayer money to internet companies such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook. Previous leaks from Edward Snowden allege that these major companies, and a few more, are involved in the National Security Agency’s PRISM program. Soon after the […]

A part of the government’s surveillance antics were revealed by Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on NSA’s PRISM program. Since the leaks, there has been a lot of debate on how the government is spying through major internet companies. In the PRISM saga, big companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google and Yahoo were named, though all of them denied knowing about the program. CNET now reports, citing people familiar […]

Newly leaked documents from Edward Snowden, the man behind the PRISM leak, claim that Microsoft has provide NSA with access that even lets it tap in to video and audio calls made through Skype.

France reportedly has its own data monitoring system that is quite like NSA's PRISM program. Its program is said to be headed by DGSE, the country's intelligence agency.

Complaints have been filed with the EU against Facebook, Skype, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple since they have allegedly provided the NSA data under the PRISM program.

Chinese media outlets are calling U.S. made tech products security threats, after Edward Snowden revealed that U.S. used Cisco routers to hack in to computer systems in China and Hong Kong.

Edward Snowden, the PRISM leak source, has been charged with espionage by the U.S. government. Earlier today he reported flew out of Hong Kong and headed to Moscow.

Edward Snowden has now leaked documents which reveal that UK's GCHQ, is allegedly intercepting large quantities of web and telephone call data by tapping fiber optic cables directly which carry internet traffic

A new report claims that UK's GCHQ agency monitored communications of foreign delegates at the G20 summits in 2009.

Ever since the PRISM scandal (a government program deemed legal that collects digital information for security purposes) exploded in the media, public-facing companies like Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft have been on the defensive in terms of public relations since they are at the forefront of the public’s reaction (if not anger). The original story was that the government security agencies had “direct access” to the companies servers. All of […]

According to a new report Yahoo against a court order before having to join the NSA's PRISM program.

Edward Snowden, the PRISM leak source, claims that U.S. has been hacking into China and Hong Kong's computer systems. This has allegedly been going on since 2009.

When the story of PRISM first broke, there were many who were shocked by this. Of course there were some who sort of expected that this was going on, and then there were those who could not believe their own government was doing this. Most reactions on the internet seemed to be against PRISM, but interestingly a new study from the Pew Research Center has found that while the idea […]