PRISM does not collect everything, says NSA, but it targets suspicious email addresses and phone numbers.
According to the top lawyers of the service who participated in a public hearing in front of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the intelligence service does not collect all the data circulating, but had adapted the program to track or detect suspected terrorists and other national security threats.
"We know what we want and we get it, because the collection data "It is targeted, not loose," said Robert Litt, general counsel in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
He also stated that the service does not collect keywords nor scans emails or other messages trafficked by major technology companies.
PRISM was one of the first NSA programs unveiled by Edward Snowden. Publications at the time said the PRISM program collected data directly from major tech companies such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft.
Several months later, NSA executives claim that PRISM is not the program that collects everything we all knew it was, but a very program-oriented, goal-oriented program, ie suspected of terrorist actions,
The National Security Service but also the rest of the secrets services, they are probably trying to calm public opinion, as their actions have a direct cost, not so much to themselves, since they are probably continuing to do their work, as in the big technology companies.
What serious company, which thinks to put its data in the cloud, will dare to do it on US servers? So the secret service is trying to prove to us (?) Claiming that things were not as bad as it looked, and that the programs were in fact under close supervision to keep the law. (rather soon we should apologize for the service)
While this may have been the official history of the NSA, the Congressional Intelligence Service's Congressional Committee has admitted not being aware of many NSA activities, while the Pentagon guard recently said that he had absolutely no idea about the mass the data collection organization.
Of course, it is worth mentioning that at the same hearing, NSA's top lawyers said that despite official denials from the large companies involved in the PRISM leaks, the companies were aware of the project. What they did not know was their name (PRISM), but that does not change the fact that they had delivered the requested information.
